Teaching English with Oxford

How many edtech buzzwords can you list in a minute? How often have you been told you are falling behind and need to catch up with the latest emerging technology or risk being left behind or losing your job or school? How will you cope with an ever-faster developing technology landscape and make sure you stay relevant in the future? Maybe to keep up you have been reading all the...
For an introduction to multimodal literacy and why it is important, read part 1. It’s becoming increasingly unusual for our students to encounter media using only written or spoken language. Most texts our students are exposed to also have elements of visual design, images, and moving images and soon many of these texts are likely to be experienced in 3D virtual environments. Yet much of the skills teaching we do...
From my extensive experience of training English language teachers from all around the world, I believe that many teachers have heard of the concept of multimodality but the majority are unsure of its exact meaning and its relevance to English language teaching. In this article, I will try to clarify what multimodality is and how it is highly relevant to English language teachers and learners. We will begin by exploring...
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