Maintaining discipline
Working from home or studying in isolation in 2021, it’s very easy to approach burnout. Our professional and personal lives blur into a singular routine. While many initially feared a lack of productivity and disciplined focus while working from home or studying away...The Man Who Made Dictionaries
This is the story of Albert Sydney Hornby and the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Behind the dictionary’s creation is the fascinating story of a ‘simple teacher’ with a brilliant mind, whose passion for language teaching changed the way the world learns English....Keeping up versus leapfrogging: South Africa’s unique post-COVID development challenges and opportunities
Nicole Dodd is an Oxford University Press South Africa author and content editor of Contemporary Issues in Human Resources Management 5e. In this video, she touches on the following points: HRM and Organisational PsychologyPolitical Economy and Development...10 tips for keeping up with your studies during isolation
With hours blurring into days and days into months, now is as good a time as any to make sure you are preparing for your exams. And with national lockdown levels fluctuating, and of the reality of studying in isolation always a possibility, it’s a good idea to be...Going digital saves time!
New technologies, such as social media, cell phones, digital devices, and apps for almost everything, have sparked fierce debate. On the one hand, there are those who fiercely favour technology and cannot picture their life without it. On the other hand, some people...Become a VOCAL Online Teacher!
When John Savery created an acronym in 2005, he hoped it would be useful to teachers in their attempts to be successful in online teaching (Savery, 2005: 141). Visual, Organized, Compassionate, Analytical, and Leader-by-Example were the words used to create the...7 Simple Suggestions For Blended Learning
The terms “hybrid” and “blended” learning are the new “it” words in a post-pandemic education system. Nevertheless, how can you know whether you are doing things correctly or not? There appears to be an infinite number of authors claiming to be experts in this field...Tips for learning vocabulary
The key to learning a new language is building up your vocabulary. Here are some tips for learners of English to learn new words. Read, read, read The more you read — especially novels, but also magazines and newspapers — the more words you’ll...Taking a thematic approach to learning a new language
In South Africa, most children are required to learn a second language (called the First Additional Language – FAL) at Foundation Phase level (Grades 1-3). For the vast majority of non-English HL speakers in our multilingual society, that FAL is English as from Grade...
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