Here are some TEFL articles that I would love to see but am willing to bet you couldn’t get in a TEFL paper publication in the next 12 months. Anyone want to take me up on the bet or suggest some more?

1. Present Perfect Continuous – Can’t we all just agree to pretend it doesn’t exist?

2. Filtering out people you and the other students will hate at the placement test stage

3. Arguments in class as a source of authentic communication

4. Getting students to listen to your problems and sort out your personal life as a source of authentic communication

5. Solutions for teachers with bad breath or chronic wind

6. How to avoid burnout and extend your career by organising regular periods of coasting

7. Colourful swearing as a source of collocations

8. Improving classroom dynamics by making sure they all hate you equally

9. The effect of fake diplomas on the wall on student learning

10. Eikaiwa school and hostess bar – A comparative study

11. Fantasies about killing your students – What they mean and what you should do

12. Getting ahead – 100 great backstabbing tricks from business that also work in TEFL

13. The effect on learning of having a good looking teacher – A case study involving plastic surgery

14. Humiliating students with Humanistic Language Teaching techniques as the first step to lowering barriers to learning

15. Discussing the Oedipus complex and penis envy in EFL classes

16. Burnt out and cynical at 35 – A scientific analysis of why students are right to prefer younger teachers

17. The surprising accuracy of judging someone’s level from the way they say hello and its implications for the future of the IELTS speaking test

18. Ten years of experience or one year of experience ten times – Which one do our employers deserve?

19. What can TEFL learn from brainwashing techniques?

20. Getting rid of TEFL nutters – Can we do it and would there be enough teachers left?