Category Archives: TEFL Heroes- Michael Lewis

Evidence-based teaching?

Evidence-based medicine is all the rage at the moment. While not lacking in critics and almost certainly leading to the dismissal of some brilliant mavericks and their ideas alongside the control of crackpots and incompetents, all the evidence seems to … Continue reading

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You can't Beat that sh*t! Oh, okay, turns out you can…

So, Takeshi Kitano wins another film award at an arty festival, along no doubt with a whole load of other unwatchable crap. There are a few specifically Beat Takeshi points worth making here, such as: if the judges just watched some … Continue reading

Posted in Dogme, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, TBA (Task Based Approach), TEFL Heroes- Michael Lewis, TEFL heroes- Scott Thornbury, TESOL, textbooks, The lexical approach | Comments Off on You can't Beat that sh*t! Oh, okay, turns out you can…