Joe McVeigh

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On English Language Materials Writing

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · EFL, Materials development

Darren Elliot keeps a great blog called The Lives of Teachers.  He interviewed a number of people at a recent conference of JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching.)  One of those interviewed was Miles Craven, a British ELT author based in Japan.  Miles talks about the process of researching materials, the challenges of writing, […]

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Teaching and learning English in Japan

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · EFL, TESOL, teacher-training

  Tim Murphey had his EFL students at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan talk about their experiences learning English in junior high school and high school.  They then made a very interesting video about their experiences. In it, they ask the Japanese Ministry of Education to change the exam system and they ask […]

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Teaching Languages with Technology

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Consulting, EFL, Resources, TESOL, Technology, teacher-training

I’m back from a terrific time in Chile, hosted by colleagues at Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago. They were wonderful hosts, and while there, I gave a talk called Teaching Languages with Technology. Several of the teachers at the university joined in and gave brief demos of the way that they use the language lab, […]

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Laureate job posting

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments · EFL, Jobs, Program Administration

The job posted below has now been filled.
I’m currently doing some consulting for a large group of non-profit universities called Laureate Education, Inc. Laureate owns about 25 universities in about 15 countries through their University Network. They are looking for a Director of English Learning Programs to oversee their EFL efforts around […]

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