Monday, March 31, 2025

Main Reviews

Review: From Teacher to Trainer

From Teacher to TrainerBy Matthew T. Ellman and Peter LucantoniCambridge, 2022ISBN: 978-1-108-82707-2 Since they often make bold claims as to how they have moved forward in this aspect of the...

Review: The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching Practicum

The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching PracticumBy Fiona Farr and Angela FarrellEquinox, 2023ISBN: 978-1-78179849-2 For many undergraduate trainee teachers...

Philip Kerr’s 30 Trends in ELT

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers: Pocket editions Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-00-907372-1 Following my review in this journal...

The Angel

The Angel ISBN: 978-3-7114-0043-7Midnight Bay ISBN: 978-3-7114-0042-0The Captain’s Castle ISBN: 978-3-7114-0044-4By Gavin BiggsHelbling Languages, 2023 As a regular reviewer...

Get out of here

Take your students on a mission to learn with this innovative book, says Wayne Trotman ESCAPE THE CLASSROOM Fiona...

Learning through the unknown

From a pair of trainers to the Loch Ness monster, Wayne Trotman looks at unusual teaching tactics HISTORY’S MYSTERIES Created by Taylor Sap with Catherine...

Notes on good practice

As a teacher you should never stop learning, says Wayne Trotman TEACHING IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES By Chris Sowton Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 978-1-108-81612-0 The inspiration for...

Drilling for success

There is good reason for persisting with an age-old method, says Wayne Trotman USING DRILLS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING By Tony Penston ISBN 978-0-9531323-6-2 It’s always a...

The answer book

Where to go when you just don’t know 50 QUESTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH USAGE David Crystal Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers: Pocket Editions Cambridge University Press, 2021...

Explaining the tricky stuff

Wayne Trotman finds a book that tackles teaching grammar simply LEARNING TO TEACH GRAMMAR By Simon Haines DELTA Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 978-3-12-501628-6 Who among us has never felt...

Successful learning

Strategies and insights prove useful in acquiring a new language, finds Wayne Trotman 100+ Tips and Tricks for Success in Language Learning Felicity O’Dell and Patricia...
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