Student speech recital + Building our castle
Yesterday was the first time I had overseen an English recital from start to finish. It was quite a challenge for the students when I...
CLIL - Bird brain dissection
My last post mentioned the recent publication of an article of mine in a local academic journal. The message may have given the wrong...
My CLIL journey has begun
Today I took my first huge step into the world of C.L.I.L (Content and Language Integrated Learning, which I will now just call CLIL). ...
The petals have fallen
The cherry blossoms have nearly all fallen off the trees around the Kanto area of Japan, which means that the new school year is well and...
Wake up Stevo!
I don't refer to myself in the 3rd person often. Don't worry. I looked over some of my recent articles and came to the obvious...
Nearing the end of the school year
Time to talk about school again. Term 2 finished at the end of December, just before Christmas Day for students but after for teachers. ...
The English language learning situation in Japanese high schools.
There are many armchair critics, including myself, of the way English is taught in the Japanese education system. They have heaped...
