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Today is my birthday and I had an email from an old friend, someone I seldom hear from and see even less, but every year he sends me birthday greetings. He asked what I am up, said not much news on the website these days, and he’s right. I write for the monthly […]

Christmas Spirit 2006, original digital artwork, copyright Alison Boston

Well, I’ve been in Barcelona just over 3 months now and I have just moved into my sixth accomodation (seven if you count the crazy woman I left my bags with for 1/2 a day, then chose not to sleep there for even one night!) […]

I made this to go with a post I wrote last week about using poetry in the ESL classroom, but for some reason it is just getting uploaded today.
I have so many images stored on my computer. I am making them faster than I can process them. And I’ve got […]

Here’s an entry I posted this evening in Lee Hobbs English Blogg…
Although I am a writer, I haven’t taught much writing, but I do use pictures.
The beauty of using images - and in this instance a highly visceral one - rather than words to teach a foreign language is it provokes the students […]

“..to the ends of Being” is like the soul. Remember we talked about the soul? The soul is and the soul never ends.”

She nodded and drew the infinity symbol on her paper, and said: “Does it mean this?”

I believe we need some kind of global body that will standardize accreditation, and negotiate with countries to recognize an accredited native speaker teacher as a type of global citizen, and thereby permit that person to work in signed countries, issue invoices to their employers, and pay taxes in their home, or ‘native’ country as a self-employed person, complete with legitimate business expenses and yes, appropriate tax and social contributions.