Category Archives: Technology & TEFL

This section contains articles about CALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning. From specific CALL activities, to information on CALL in general, to useful software available for the classroom. Finally there are articles slightly more general in nature about teachers and technology – using social media sites like Facebook, for example and the pitfalls for teachers.

If you are interested in CALL remember that we also run a unique CALL Certificate Course – the first of its kind – where you can learn the essentials of using CALL in your classroom.

Hot Potatoes‏‎ (CALL Software)

Hot Potatoes is a suite of 6 applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the internet. The software has recently been made freeware. The suite consists of the following programs: JQuiz (question-based exercises) JCloze (gapfill exercises) JMatch (matching exercises) JMix […]


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Facebook for TEFL Teachers

The chances are that you have a Facebook account and there is more than a fair chance that some of your students do too. But this raises a number of questions and if you get the answer wrong, it can sometimes have dire consequences. Do I become “friends” with my […]


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English Teachers – The Series‏‎ (TEFAL)

English Teachers – the series, is a fictional webseries about the lives of English teachers in a language school in Japan. The first episode aired in September 2010. It is directed and produced by Anthony Gilmore who teaches English part-time at the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan and […]


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English Pronunciation (TEFAL)

The clip below demonstrates the art of English pronunciation training as practiced by Steve Martin in the Pink Panther. Movie: The Pink Panther BUY/RENT THE MOVIE: https://amzn.to/3jhVP0R CLIP DESCRIPTION: A dialect coach asks Clouseau (Steve Martin) to repeat a simple phrase. FILM DESCRIPTION: The world’s most inept detective returns to […]


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