Teaching Effective Thinking: Game – Forced Connections – Similes
This is one game to encourage remote connections, an important process in creative thinking (see the ‘Teaching Effective Thinking Introduction’. Read more
An English Empire? Linguistic Imperialism and me.
When I completed my CELTA (the initial training course for EFL teachers) and considered all the places in the world I wanted to travel to and teach in, I faced some, half-joking, accusations that what I was about to do aided some covert imperialist agenda. Was I a modern-day missionary, an ELT evangelist preaching Received Pronunciation, sermonising about sentence structure, bearing witness to SVO word order? Was I an unwitting foot soldier in the building of a new English Empire, annihilating native languages, crushing cultures, promulgating Western capitalist ideals?