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Join me for ELTOC—the English Language Teaching Online Conference—from Oxford University Press. I’ll be speaking on Friday, March 27th on the topic of critical thinking and global skills in ELT. It will be live at 9:30 a.m. in the Middle East and 3:30 p.m. in Asia. If those times...

I am delighted to be speaking as part of Oxford Asia Day on September 27th. There will be a number of presentations during the day. My topic is “A Question-Centered Approach to Teaching with Global Skills.” I hope you’ll join me!  

I am thrilled that the 4th edition of our Q: Skills for Success series is now available in an international edition. This version has some new readings and activities. In addition to the usual focus on reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary, this edition is very tightly...

Join me on April 24 for the spring version of Oxford Day Online. I’ll be talking about Encouraging Student-Centered Learning in Academic English. See the description below. Do check your local time zone. This is mostly aimed at an Asian audience so the sessions are in the...

I’m delighted that the 3rd edition of Q: Skills for Success is now available from Oxford University Press.  My co-author, Jenny Bixby, and I are very proud of our contributions. We co-wrote two books in the reading/writing strand of the series, Level 2 and also the...

I’m delighted to report that the second editions of both the Intro and Level 2 books of Q Skills for Success Reading/Writing are now in print. The second edition of the Special Edition of Reading/Writing 2 for Saudi Arabia is also now available. These new editions have a number...

Here are a few words of advice on helping students write essays. It’s part of a series from Oxford University Press in which students are invited to ask questions of the authors of Q: Skills for Success.  You can watch in in the YouTube version below, or go to the OUP ELT...

The authors of OUP’s Q: Skills for Success series have been answering questions from teachers. I was given a question about how to encourage students to speak more English in class.  You can watch the video directly using the link below, or visit the Oxford University Press...

Oxford University Press has started asking users of Q:Skills for success what they would like to know about the books and how to use them better.  Watch this video to get instructions on how to submit your questions.  

In preparing our textbooks in the Q: Skills for Success series, my co-author Jenny Bixby and I have done a lot of research into effective methods of teaching reading. We’ve developed a few conference presentations on the subject. (You can download some slides here, or some...