life skills
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Posted by Paola Vettorel on March 27, 2013
Our series on the dominance of English continues with today’s guest post from Paola Vettorel. Paola was an EFL teacher and teacher-trainer in Italy before becoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Language and Literature at the University of Verona. Her main research interests include English as a lingua franca and its implications for [...]
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Posted by Luke Thompson on March 21, 2012
Our guest blogger Luke Thompson teaches at The London School of English and produces Luke’s English Podcast, which won the Macmillan Dictionary Love English Award for Best Blog 2011. This blog post is about how hedging and indirectness in English can be used to establish a respectful and polite relationship between speakers. This is particularly [...]
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Posted by Mariela Gil on March 14, 2012
Our second post on Life Skills is by Mariela Gil Vierma. Mariela has taught English in the US, Mexico and Thailand and has worked for Macmillan since 2002. She is currently commissioning editor and developed the concept for the Mind series which involves the development of life skills alongside English. There’s this gap. I’ve seen [...]
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Posted by Steve Taylore-Knowles on February 21, 2012
This month and next, our Live English blog is going to be looking at Life Skills. Here to introduce the topic is Steve Taylore-Knowles, a Lancashire-based ELT expert who has written many successful courses for Macmillan, most recently openMind and masterMind for the online Mind series. In the future every educational endeavour will [...]
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