This issue of ETp is particularly rich in articles in which people are keen to share their experiences. For Tim Thompson and Melinda Thomsen, their particular experience is of teaching business skills courses. Whilst Tim describes how he turned on his TV and realised that reality shows could be a fruitful source of material and information for teaching students who are about to plunge into the cut-and-thrust world of business, Melinda tells of how she found ways to combat the tensions that arise in a community college course which combines English with other vocational objectives.
Following feedback from his earlier article in ETp, Ken Lackman has refined his language input technique to take into account concerns that teachers shared with him about vocabulary control. The result is an article demonstrating how to use texts, rather than teacher talk, to introduce new words and lexical chunks to students and get them to choose and use the ones they want to focus on.
In his Webwatcher articles, Russell Stannard has always made us party to his infectious enthusiasm for the internet and pointed the way to the many useful sites that he has found on it. Here he features his own website, where he shares a wealth of knowledge and technical expertise through a series of free videos which will show us, step by step, exactly how to make technology work for us.
A big thank you to everyone, both speakers and delegates, who came to ETp Live in September and made it such a great success. See you at the next one in 2008.
Helena Gomm
Editor