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# Home

## Welcome to the ELT Research Bites Archive

The ELT Research Bites blog was started by Anthony Schmidt in late 2016 and ran till about mid 2019. It extended an idea first developed on his personal blog.

At that time there was no multi-author summary site focused on language teaching and learning written by teachers.

There still isn't. So this archive is a reminder of that initiative.

You can use the search facility and/or the list of pages.

The following (in alphabetical order) were the contributors to the site:
*Stephen Bruce*, *Richard Ingold*, *Marc Jones*, *Geoff Jordan*,
*Philip Kerr*, *Nicola Linde*, *Clare Maas*, *Mura Nava*, *Matthew Noble*,
*Joshua M. Paiz*, *Anthony Schmidt*, *Leo Selivan*, *Jeremy Slagoski*, *Shona Whyte*

There is a funded summary site called [OASIS](https://oasis-database.org/) written by researchers. And there is a multi-lingual summary site called [Multi-ʻōlelo](https://multiolelo.com/).

[A ‘Big-picture’ Snapshot of Teaching Grammar in TESL/TEFL](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/a-big-picture-snapshot-of-teaching-grammar-in-tesltefl)

[A Closer Look at Corrective Feedback in Action](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/a-closer-look-at-corrective-feedback-in-action)

[A Pedagogical Approach to Note Taking Instruction](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/a-pedagogical-approach-to-note-taking-instruction)

[A Tale of Three Writing Activities and Their Effect on Vocabulary Learning](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/a-tale-of-three-writing-activities-and-their-effect-on-vocabulary-learning)

[Affordances and learning opportunities in lesson plan templates](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/affordances-and-learning-opportunities-in-lesson-plan-templates)

[An Updated Take on the Ethical Treatment of L2 writers](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/an-updated-take-on-the-ethical-treatment-of-l2-writers)

[Blasting into Hyperdrive: A Motivational Framework](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blasting-into-hyperdrive-a-motivational-framework)

[Blending Offline and Online Feedback on EAP Writing](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blending-offline-and-online-feedback-on-eap-writing)

[Blog Carnival: From Theory to Classroom Practice](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blog-carnival-from-theory-to-classroom-practice)

[Blog Carnival: Study Abroad...what is it good for?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blog-carnival-study-abroad-what-is-it-good-for)

[Blog Carnival: The S the L and the A of SLA](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blog-carnival-the-s-the-l-and-the-a-of-sla)

[Blog Carnival: The Taped Monologue as Narrative Technique for Reflective Practice](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blog-carnival-the-taped-monologue-as-narrative-technique-for-reflective-practice)

[Blog Carnival: What Postgraduates Appreciate in Online Feedback on Academic Writing](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/blog-carnival-what-postgraduates-appreciate-in-online-feedback-on-academic-writing)

[Bottom-up decoding has a link to L2 proficiency](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/bottom-up-decoding-has-a-link-to-l2-proficiency)

[Bridging the ELT Theory-Practice Gap](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/bridging-the-elt-theory-practice-gap)

[Busting the Learning Styles Myth](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/busting-the-learning-styles-myth)

[Buyer beware: SLA and the spacing effect](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/buyer-beware-sla-and-the-spacing-effect)

[Cognitive Load and Language Teaching - What Teachers Need to Know](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/cognitive-load-and-language-teaching-what-teachers-need-to-know)

[Collaborative Reasoning: Small Group Discussions and Their Impact on Language Learning](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/collaborative-reasoning-small-group-discussions-and-their-impact-on-language-learning)

[Collaborative Revision in the Writing Classroom](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/collaborative-revision-in-the-writing-classroom)

[Comprehensibility and Intelligibility of International Student Speech](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/comprehensibility-and-intelligibility-of-international-student-speech)

[Content-Based Instruction in EAP - What are the long-term outcomes?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/content-based-instruction-in-eap-what-are-the-long-term-outcomes)

[Corpus Use, Search Engines, and Writing Proficiency](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/corpus-and-search-engine-facing)

[Critical Thinking and Beginning Writing Skills](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/critical-thinking-and-beginning-writing-skills)

[Cutting the Gordian knot of language curriculum - structural syllabus as a checklist?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-language-curriculum-structural-syllabus-as-a-checklist)

[Does ELF Have a Role in EAP Writing?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/does-elf-have-a-role-in-eap-writing)

[Extensive Reading and Reading Proficiency - What the Evidence Says](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/extensive-reading-and-reading-proficiency-what-the-evidence-says)

[Foreign Language Educators’ Exposure to Research](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/foreign-language-educators-exposure-to-research)

[Gap-fill, Sentence Writing or Composition - Which Task Leads to Better Vocabulary Learning?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/gap-fill-sentence-writing-or-composition-which-task-leads-to-better-vocabulary-learning)

[Genre Analysis: The Building Blocks of EAP Lessons](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/genre-analysis-the-building-blocks-of-eap-lessons)

[Getting Acquainted with Flipped Learning in TESOL](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/getting-acquainted-with-flipped-learning-in-tesol)

[Hands-Off Learning? The Evidence Against Minimally Guided Instruction](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/hands-off-learning-the-evidence-against-minimally-guided-instruction)

[High-Leverage Teaching Practices](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/high-leverage-teaching-practices)

[How much does your TED Talk? Vocabulary Coverage and TED Talks](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/how-much-does-your-ted-talk-vocabulary-coverage-and-ted-talks)

[How to Teach Conditionals with Cognitive Linguistics](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/how-to-teach-conditionals-with-cognitive-linguistics)

[Impact of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction on EAP Lecture Comprehension](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/impact-of-metacognitive-strategy-instruction-on-eap-lecture-comprehension)

[Implications from Research on Writing from Reading](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/implications-from-research-on-writing-from-reading)

[Implicit Learning and Input Enhancement - Long (2017) Part 2](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/implicit-learning-and-input-enhancement-long-2017-part-2)

[Improving Foreign Language Listening Skills by Reading](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/improving-foreign-language-listening-skills-by-reading)

[Improving Vocabulary Use in Writing Tasks](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/improving-vocabulary-use-in-writing-tasks)

[Influences of Native-Speakerism on Teachers and Students](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/influences-of-native-speakerism-on-teachers-students)

[Input, output, shake it all about-put?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/input-output-shake-it-all-about-put)

[Integrating Extensive Reading with EAP Writing](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/integrating-extensive-reading-and-writing)

[Introducing a New General Service List](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/introducing-a-new-general-service-list)

[Is Corrective Feedback Effective?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/is-corrective-feedback-effective)

[Is Flipped Learning Really Worth the Trouble? Or, Flipped Learning and Learning Gains in the ESL/EFL Context](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/is-flipped-learning-really-worth-the-trouble-or-flipped-learning-and-learning-gains-in-the-eslefl-context)

[Is Intuition as Good as Corpus Frequency for Selecting Vocabulary?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/is-intuition-as-good-as-corpus-frequency-for-selecting-vocabulary)

[Is Translation a Helpful Teaching Tool?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/is-translation-a-helpful-teaching-tool)

[Language Learning through Social Networks: Perceptions and Reality](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/language-learning-through-social-networks-perceptions-and-reality)

[Language Teachers' Mindsets as Keys to Integrate Technology in the Classroom](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/language-teachers-mindsets-as-keys-to-integrate-technology-in-the-classroom)

[Listening for needles in haystacks: how lecturers introduce key terms](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/listening-for-needles-in-haystacks-how-lecturers-introduce-key-terms)

[Making the Native-Speaker Debate more Inclusive](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/making-the-native-speaker-debate-more-inclusive)

[Measuring Speech: A Comprehensibility Scale for Teachers](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/measuring-speech-a-teacher-oriented-comprehensibility-scale)

[Misunderstanding Comprehension](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/misunderstanding-comprehension)

[Multilingualism as a resource in the foreign language classroom](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/multilingualism-as-a-resource-in-the-foreign-language-classroom)

[Nominalization and Grammatical Metaphor](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/nominalization-and-grammatical-metaphor)

[Progress on Receptive Skills in CLIL and Non-CLIL Contexts](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/progress-on-receptive-skills-in-clil-and-non-clil-contexts)

[Pronunciation, Autonomy, and Automatic Speech Recognition](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/pronunciation-autonomy-and-automatic-speech-recognition)

[Pronunciation Instruction: Waste of Time or Worth the Effort?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/pronunciation-instruction-waste-of-time-or-worth-the-effort)

[Reading to Learn: A Reading and Writing Pedagogy](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/reading-to-learn-a-reading-and-writing-pedagogy)

[Receptivity to Learner-Driven Feedback in EAP](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/receptivity-to-learner-driven-feedback-in-eap)

[Rethinking English as a Lingua Franca](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/rethinking-english-as-a-lingua-franca)

[Scaffolding for Critical Reading in EAP](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/scaffolding-for-critical-reading-in-eap)

[Shadowing in ELT: Who benefits and how?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/shadowing-in-elt-who-benefits-and-how)

[Silva’s “On the Ethical Treatment of L2 Writers”: Still Very Relevant](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/silvas-on-the-ethical-treatment-of-l2-writers-still-very-relevant)

[Sink or Swim: The Challenges of International Students and How to Address Them](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/sink-or-swim-the-challenges-of-international-students-and-how-to-address-them)

[Spaced repetition software and TOEIC test proficiency](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/spaced-repetition-software-and-toeic-test-proficiency)

[Surviving the Gauntlet of Novice Teaching](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/surviving-the-gauntlet-of-novice-teaching)

[Taking Another Look at Student Perceptions of Automated Writing Evaluators (AWEs): The Case of a Sino-British Joint Venture](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/taking-another-look-at-student-perceptions-of-automated-writing-evaluators-awes-the-case-of-a-sino-british-joint-venture)

[Taking communication to task? A critical review of recent trends in language teaching](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/taking-communication-to-task-a-critical-review-of-recent-trends-in-language-teaching)

[Teachers' Immunity to Burnout: How to get it right](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/teachers-immunity-to-burnout-how-to-get-it-right)

[Teaching English Speakers to Speak English (as an International Language)](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/teaching-english-epeakers-to-speak-english-as-an-international-language)

[The Authenticity of Textbook Topics](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/the-authenticity-of-textbook-topics)

[The Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching Phrasal Verbs](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/the-cognitive-linguistic-approach-to-teaching-phrasal-verbs)

[The Ups and Downs of Listening Instruction](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/the-ups-and-downs-of-listening-instruction)

[The "What" and "How" of Classroom-Research, Part 1](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/the-what-and-how-of-classroom-research-part-1)

[The "What" and "How" of Classroom-Research, Part 2](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/the-what-and-how-of-classroom-research-part-2)

[To Translate or Not to Translate? The Effects of Translation Tasks on Language Accuracy](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/to-translate-or-not-to-translate-the-effects-of-translation-tasks-on-language-accuracy)

[To what extent is the Academic Vocabulary List relevant to university student writing?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/to-what-extent-is-the-academic-vocabulary-list-relevant-to-university-student-writing)

[Using both a corpus and a dictionary to learn unknown vocabulary](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/using-both-a-corpus-and-a-dictionary-to-learn-unknown-vocabulary)

[Using Close Reading for Academic Texts and Writing](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/using-close-reading-for-academic-texts-and-writing)

[What Can Screen Capture Reveal About Students’ Use of Software Tools When Undertaking a Paraphrasing Task?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/what-can-screen-capture-reveal-about-students-use-of-software-tools-when-undertaking-a-paraphrasing-task)

[What Do Students Think about Automated Grammar Tools?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/what-do-students-think-about-automated-grammar-tools)

[What is Instructed Second Language Acquistion (ISLA)? - Long (2017) Part 1](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/what-is-instructed-second-language-acquistion-isla-long-2017-part-1)

[What is More Effective: Explicit or Implicit Grammar Instruction?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/what-is-more-effective-explicit-or-implicit-grammar-instruction)

[What Works Better: Teachers' L1 Use or L2‐Only Explanations?](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/what-works-better-teachers-l1-use-or-l2-only-explanations)

[Working Memory and Implicit/Explicit Instruction](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/working-memory-and-implicit-explicit-instruction)

[Working Memory Capacity and Language Instruction: A Case for Explicit Instruction](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/working-memory-capacity-and-language-instruction-a-case-for-explicit-instruction)

[Writing Intensive Pedagogy and Multilingual Writers](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/writing-intensive-pedagogy-and-multilingual-writers)

[Written Feedback - Does it Work? - Part 1](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/written-feedback-does-it-work-part-1)

[Written Feedback - Does it Work? - Part 2](https://eltresearchbites-archive.englishup.me/written-feedback-does-it-work-part-2)

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