In the last couple of years, I’ve occasionally come across articles and conference presentations on the topic of ‘the flipped classroom’. It’s a concept that’s not new, but when I brought it up in conversations with a number of colleagues (I was talking about an upcoming presentation for IATEFL), I realised that few of us […]
How to best help students to make the transition from IELTS essays to academic writing? How can we help students when they realise that writing styles and levels of formality that may have worked fine in an IELTS essay are suddenly regarded as inappropriate at university? Els van Geyte, author of the Writing title in […]
Julie Moore & Lisa Sutherland held a session on ‘Dictionary evolution: Exploiting modern referencing tools to the max‘ at IATEFL in Manchester. Their presentation slides are now available, and they include plenty of practical teaching tips and information about future plans for the Collins Corpus. Download Slides: Dictionary evolution: Exploiting modern referencing tools to the […]
By Penny Hands, senior editor of Collins Grammar in Action When the new edition of COBUILD English Grammar hit the proverbial and virtual shelves, teachers and students may have been wondering what could be new about a grammar. We all know about new words, which are wheeled out and bandied around at every new edition of a big […]
Today is the day! Two brand-new editions of the popular and well-liked COBUILD dictionaries are published. To find out more about these dictionaries and what COBUILD stands for, why not browse our new COBUILD catalogue? Authentic, accurate and up-to-date English All of the explanations, examples and special features in COBUILD dictionaries […]
We are thrilled that Lectures, one of the six books in the Collins Academic Skills Series, has been shortlisted at the English-Speaking Union HRH the Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Awards! This is what the ESU judges said about Lectures: Collins Academic Skills Series: Lectures is a very thorough book which uses real life […]
Celebrating the launch of the new and 8th Edition of the COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, our Corpus lexicographer Julie Moore has written an excellent article about the impact of corpora on English language teaching, which was published in the October issue of the Modern English Teacher. We hope you’ll enjoy reading it! What has a […]
“When we hear the words ‘a new culture,’ we often think of an outward journey, an adventure in a new land. However, after reading this chapter, you may realize that the process of adjusting to a new culture is very much a journey inside of yourself.” (International Students’ Survival Guide, Chapter 4 Dealing with culture […]
You’re starting to think in detail about the practicalities of your life as a student abroad? I found that particularly scary because it involved managing money in a foreign currency, thinking about which expenses to expect, and dealing with official systems and procedures (health systems, banks, etc) in a country that was foreign to me. […]
When I was packing for my year abroad I tried to take far too many things with me. I just wanted to be prepared for everything. Also, I had no idea what the shops were going to be like in the UK, so I thought I’d rather play it safe and bring all my favourite […]