Category Archives: Rod Ellis

Rod Ellis on theory and practice

Posted on 01/02/2010 by alexcase

“SLA research is not capable of providing teachers with recipes for successful practice. It should be treated as providing teachers with ‘insights’ which they can use to build their own explicit theory. It is on the basis of this theory- … Continue reading →

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How to cope with methodology books

Posted on 12/12/2009 by alexcase

Daaren E!!iott’s doubts about reading TEFL books as a way of improving your lessons and my desperate attempt to justify reading books about Korea as a form of CPD instead on building up my arm muscles with Rod Ellis’s The … Continue reading →

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SLA error correction

Posted on 10/09/2009 by alexcase

In best EFL progress test style, change at least one word in the often seen sentence below to make it less ridiculous: “Our teaching methodology is in line with current SLA theory” Took me a while too, in fact I … Continue reading →

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