EFL Bliss - in lieu of a blog
This might have been a blog, but a blog demands something more frequent, and you end up with that horrible feeling of being slapped by the calendar because you haven't written anything for so long. But why write unless you really have something to say?
From time to time, though, we do actually write pieces that (usually) have a connection with EFL and the business of teaching English as a foreign language. Here is a selection.
EFL Bliss posts
Digital education
How to teach fish and other thoughts on digital education and digital media studies
The anti-teacher teacher movement
The strange phenomenon of teachers bashing the very idea of teaching while thinking that their jobs in school might remain secure. Our cry in response to this is: "Save our schools from the a
The Philosophy of EFL
The philosophy of EFL ESL and the demise of thinking about the methodology of teaching English
Oh, for the days of Socrates!
What happened to the love of learning?
A good war?
Howard Zinn on war, lies and peace
Perry or Plath: teaching teenage angst
Using Katy Perry or Sylvia Plath in the EFL/ESL classroom for teenagers
Morrissey - a song for the gamma male
Morrissey - the sound of Manchester and a song for the anti-northern boys
In search of real essays
The changing form of the English essay - the history of the essay Montaigne to Paglia
Teaching English as a Truly Foreign Language
Teaching English as a Truly Foreign Language - a reflection on the meaning of the F in TEFL and the S in TESOL