Wednesday, April 2, 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...

Helping teachers stay positive

Wayne Trotman reviews a timely book that focuses on helping teachers maintain a healthy work-life balance Teacher Wellbeing Sarah Mercer and Tammy Gregersen Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN:...

Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms

A free-to-download practical handbook from the British Council Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: A Practical Handbook By Richard Smith (University of Warwick, UK) British Council India,...

Personal Narratives of Teaching Epiphanies

Wayne Trotman reviews a new edited volume from Alan Maley Developing Expertise Through Experience Edited by Alan Maley British Council, 2019 ISBN: 978-0-86355-950-1 On the inside cover of this...

Becoming a language teacher

Wayne Trotman reviews a study of the socialisation of trainee-teachers Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education Fiona Farr, Angela Farrell and Elaine Freeman Edinburgh University Press, 2019 ISBN:...

New ways to encourage critical thinking

Wayne Trotman reviews a book that aims to inject more critical thought into the language learning classroom CRITICAL THINKING IN ELT: A WORKING MODEL FOR...

A book that Lets Students Create their Own Stories

Wayne Trotman reviews a book that helps engage students STORIES WITHOUT END Taylor Sapp Alphabet Publishing, 2018 978-1-948-49211-9 Teachers of reading will be familiar with classes that...
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