I was too busy with my doctoral studies and could not respond to the comments for a while. Most of your comments made make a lot of sense. This teacher started off well, we might say. However, she did not reinforce the target language in context but asked for the production which made the students stumble. Here are [...]

Please see the lesson stages in Scenario 1 and kindly evaluate it in terms of the criteria for effective language teaching in my previous post.      * T aims to teach “modals” for predictions/ speculations.      * T shows some pictures from the course book and asks some concept check questions, i.e. shows a happy young [...]

Does being “eclectic” mean that you can use whatever feels right there and then? What should be the underlying aim of the exercises used in a class where eclectic approach is implemented? While criticising the prescriptive nature of language teaching approaches, Brown (2001) suggests “principled teaching”, making informed choices suitable to the context for the students in [...]

“He who stops being better stops being good.”  Oliver Cromwell This is one of those daily table calendar quotes. It was scripted for a day in August on my table. As soon as I saw it, I loved it. How true! I guess it is true for anything. The other day, a friend of mine [...]