March 2022

I’m going to start this post with a little challenge. Grab the nearest textbook and look through the pages. As you do so, pay special attention to the photos and illustrations and consider this question: What story do the images in the book tell students about the world? Images dominate the pages of many English …

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This post was first published on LinkedIn in May 2021. Earlier this week, I posted these questions on a couple of social media sites: How can we bring the topic of mental health into our ELT materials and our classrooms? And how do we do this in a way that doesn’t trigger students? Half an …

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