Teaching English can be a thoroughly rewarding experience, which is why I have been involved in this profession for quite a while now. It obviously becomes natural for any professional educators to share websites that have guided their teaching and as I approach my 20th anniversary teaching English to international students, it seems fitting to share twenty influential English teacher websites to access in 2025.

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In March, The Atlantic published a database of the titles of 7.5 million books and over 81 million research papers from what is known as Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’, which Meta has used to develop its...

Much of the language we use is metaphorical. These metaphors both shape and reflect the way we think. Often, as in the preceding sentence, they give agency (a human attribute) to non-human entities…

In the British Council’s recently commissioned report on AI and English language teaching, the ‘Executive Summary’ suggests that, ‘when it comes to AI replacing humans, the majority view is that AI…

A day late, but here we are - I can’t believe it’s been three years on Preply! So much has changed, and it’s been quite the journey. This past year was shaped by my big price changes and taking a more selective approach. Curious? Check out my third annual Preply tutor earnings report on earnings, students, and retention for 2024-2025.

Image by Hans from Pixabay I've been using social media as a form of professional development for about as long as social media has existed, so I always have a lot of thoughts about the way that we use it professionally as well as personally. Like a lot of people, I have a love-hate relationship with it nowadays because while there are things that I still enjoy about it, I haven't been entirely happy with the landscape for quite a while.

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Extensive Reading

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New Year, New Me? I’m not usually one to set New Year's resolutions, but I’ve been thinking it might be time to shake things up a bit with how I work and the amount of stuff I take on. This post is about what pushed me to this realization - the crazy number of hours I clocked in monthly for 2024.

When I was collecting essays for More Than a Gap Year Adventure, I had a chance to have Zoom chats with many amazing ELT professionals from all over the world. Even though their career stories are …

The ELT world has lost one of its outstanding professionals. N.S. Prabhu was an iconic figure and will be greatly missed.

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