Seb Pearce

[...] (´) mark, waiting for you to type the letter below it. Now press A. If you want an umlaut (¨), press Option + U; for a circumflex (ˆ), press Option + I. A list of these shortcuts is available here. [...]

[...] glance through) look for (search for) Could there be any better way to make your learners hate phrasal verbs and ensure that they aren’t learned, all in one go? You are putting your learners [...]

[...] would have to expend mental effort to do it. The difference between someone who’s fluent in a second language and someone who stumbles through every sentence is whether their System 1 is readily [...]

[...] but an English teacher, in most cases, has no idea what it’s like to learn English as a second language. Of course, this doesn’t apply to non-native teachers, who deserve much more respect [...]

[...] Try it out: http://sebpearce.com/kazu GitHub link: http://github.com/sebpearce/kazu EDIT (2014-03-08): I’ve done a complete revision of the [...]

[...] GitHub link: https://github.com/sebpearce/firewood The best feature of the Kindle is its ability to clip [...]

[...] Try it out: http://sebpearce.com/come-again/ GitHub link: http://github.com/sebpearce/come-again I’m an English teacher. Every Thursday morning, [...]

[...] Link to the Generator: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ (Yes, it’s open source: GitHub link) A while back, I was on a philosophy debate binge. Watching Sam Harris and the late Christopher [...]

This post is the first in a series focusing on bits of grammar that I’ve noticed have confused lots of teachers. Please kind in mind that this [...]

(This post is the second in a series focusing on bits of grammar that I’ve noticed have confused lots of teachers. Click here to see Part 1.) T [...]

(This post is the third in a series focusing on bits of grammar that I’ve noticed have confused lots of teachers. Click here to see Part 1.) Th [...]

[...] ;s their first language. But enough of this kind of reaction might just be enough to kill your ESL students’ motivation. It’s a waste of time to get frustrated by something that is under [...]

[...] learning languages themselves. The most tragically ironic thing in all of this is when ESL students ask their teacher, “how can I improve my vocabulary?” or “how can I [...]

[...] being exposed to the L2, mind you.) But you hardly have to step foot into the online language-learning community to find a huge wealth of resources. There are countless blogs, forums and [...]

[...] 1 and its old habits. Language as sport I’ve often heard it said, among the online language-learning community, that learning a language is more like learning a sport than an academic [...]

[...] , 2) were unrelated in meaning, and 3) looked different. Every day, we’d have a “phrasal verb of the day”, which I’d introduce in the morning with a picture/situation and often [...]

[...] ;reach boiling point”. The former is transitive and the latter is intransitive. A transitive verb needs an object. In (1), that object is the water. In (2), though, there’s no [...]

[...] ; while in the other languages, the infinitive was correct every time? The point is that infinitive verbs in other European languages actually serve a useful function — that is, when you want [...]