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Editorial Board
Managing Editor: Ovidiu Leonte, PhD, C. N. "Mihai Eminescu", Iasi
Submissions officer: Anca Larisa Tibucanu, MA, George Calinescu School, Iasi;
Aims and scope
RATE Issues seeks to explore and support TEFL worldwide and addresses TEFL/TESOL professionals at elementary and high school level as well as university faculty and researchers.Search
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- Exile Depicted in Deoraiocht and Grace and Truth. A Comparative Study
- Vygotsky’s Influence on Teaching. A TEFL Approach
- Students’ VARK Learning Style in Digital Content Writing
- A Qualitative Action Research on English Speaking Course at Tertiary Level
- Missing the Forest for the Trees when Testing in EFL. Editor's Notes
- RATE Issues Summer 2022
- Total Physical Response in Teaching ESL to Adults. An Overview
- Teaching English Through Games. Research Data and Findings
- Change and the EFL Teacher. Editor's Notes
- Thoughts on the Pandemic and Wellbeing. Guest Editor's Notes
- Teaching with Children's Literature. Practicalities for TEFL
- Engaging Students with Dynamic Games. Sample Games and Activities for any EFL Topic
- The Quest for Identity and Stability in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
- Celebrating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity for 20 Years. A Survey of EDL Activities
- RATE Issues Summer 2021
- Teaching Poetry. Personal response to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
- When in Rome. On Following Fellow Teachers
- The Limits of Assessment. The Case of Assessing Reading
- When You Swim Against the Tide. A Three-point Summer Programme
- Conceptual Definitions of Multiculturalism. A Look at Canada and the USA
- Communicative Activities. Challenges and Possible Solutions
- RATE Issues Winter 2020
- Engage with the Alternative Fact Culture. Editor's Notes
- Tips for Successful Online Lessons. An Overview
- The Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in Media Discourse
- Book review: “Language Education in a Changing World. Challenges and Opportunities”
- Recipe for a Successful Online Lesson and its Three Must-Have Ingredients
- CLIL Pedagogy. Textual Heterogeneity in CLIL Texts
- Time for Change
- From Mother Tongue to Tip Tongue
- Oral Reporting
- The Implementation of Problem Based Learning
- Using songs in the English lesson
- Teaching English during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- My Personal Teaching Philosophy: The Inductive Approach
- Planning for a new pandemic semester. Editor's notes
- RATE Issues Summer 2020
- Approaches to teaching literature. An overview
- Creative Writing to Hone Academic and Life Skills
- Postmodernism and multiple worlds in John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant’s Woman"
- Children's picture books. An overview
- Creativity pathways. PPS and video presentations in the ESL classroom
- Creativity in the English Lesson. An Overview
- Theory vs practice. Editor's notes
- RATE Issues Winter 2018
- RATE Issues 2019
- Should Native English Speaking Teachers Be Culturally Responsive in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Contexts?
- Why cooperative learning?
- Bringing reading to life
- Potentials of Voicespice for EFL/ESP Teaching
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
- On Teaching Literature
- The Importance of Human Sources of Knowledge in the Cambridge English Exam Preparation
- Mothering and Daughterhood in Women’s Experimental Theatre
- Humour in the EFL Classroom. A Practical Approach
- Teach, learn, have fun!
- Online tools – a refreshing perspective on teaching
- RATE Issues, Summer 2018
- Why do we go to school?
- There Is No Such Thing As Language Without Culture
- Teaching vocabulary to young learners using songs and games
- eTwinning
- Teaching memorable lessons
- School English National Drama Festival, “Come With Us To Dramaland”
- Extensive reading programs
- TOOL FAIR XII “Waves of Innovation “ Varna 2017
- New learning environments for English as a second language
- Teaching English through games
- Teach through action - it speaks louder than words
- Contextualisation of phrasal verbs. Activities for teaching in class
- How to teach research skills. A review of NoodleTools
- The highs and lows of competition among teachers. Editor's notes
- On Translating English Sonnets and Limericks
- Bibliography missing. Life straight ahead
- Creative methods to teach modernist short stories. Theoretical investigation and student-centred strategies
- Beyond the classroom. eTwinning projects as a good way to enhance skills
- Chick Lit’s Genesis. Background to the Advent of Commercial Literature for Women
- Who’s afraid of variations? Language variation and synonymy
- Developing intercultural communication skills for teachers and pupils through European funded projects
- Improving language competences and subject matter. The impact of CLIL as a key educational tool to teach content
- Child psychology and the teaching of English today. Correlating Jean Piaget’s ideas to TEFL theories
- RATE Issues Winter 2017
- RATE Issues, Summer 2017
- Is There Still Room for Creative Writing in 21st Century ELT? By Monica Mortu
- English Culture through Videos, by Georgiana Mona Savescu
- Is the Way to Language Acquisition Still Paved with Grammar Teaching? by Gianina Roman
- Difficulties in Teaching English Determiners. English Articles: A/ An/ The/O article, by Vasilica Mlesnita
- Creative ways to teach English as Foreign Language, by Diana Toader
- Writing - a difficult skill to master, by Vig Iuditm-Zsuzsi
- Language And Culture. Developing Cultural Awareness through the Teaching of English, by Emanuela Tulpan
- Classroom management. Things to consider when facing disruptive behavior in class, by Mona Maria Moldoveanu
- Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), by Lorena Turc
- Speech Varieties When Teaching. A Study of the Speech Varieties that the Language Teacher Chooses to Employ in the Classroom Context in Relation to the Teaching Method, by Mihaela Haldan
- The rise of the reader. Insights into the relationships between readers and texts, by Georgiana Soficu
- Editor's notes. Of being an experienced teacher, by Ovidiu Leonte
- RATE Issues Winter 2016
- Improvised Drama. An unexplored source of activities for developing skills and raising cultural awareness
- Cultural identity in African-American women writers’ work: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks and Lorraine Hansberry
- To teach or not to teach literature? Teaching Modernist short stories in advanced classes
- Teaching English in a Non-Formal environment
- Thinking outside the box: the first step towards developing students’ creativity
- The Impacts of ASEAN Community on the Role of English and the Classroom Outlooks of Indonesian Local Schools
- Facebook. The new teaching tool
- Lessons to learn from messy students and teachers as creatures of habit
- Why punish? Why not cope with it?
- RATE Issues Summer 2016
- The pitfalls of cynicism. How recognising faults in others makes one promote them, by Ovidiu Leonte
- Content language integrated learning in teaching English. Engaging young learners through CLIL, by Georgiana Soficu
- Macrostrategies for language teaching. A sample of lesson analysis, by Mihaela Haldan
- NLP in Teaching. A Practical Approach, by Catalina Elena Stoica
- English throughout the centuries. Teaching archaic possessive structures to upper-intermediate level students, by Mona Ancuta Ionescu
- How do I encourage thee? Steps to success in TEFL, by Iulia Cosma
- Interactive teaching and learning methods in a European context, by Delia Ionela Streche
- Types of learning strategies. How to cope with a foreign language, by Catalina Ecaterina Baltateanu
- RATE Issues Winter 2015
- The future of English
- New Competences – Added Value
- Teaching English through stories and songs
- A Feminist Approach to Jane Eyre
- Creative recycling goes hand in hand with creative writing
- Discipline vs. non-conformity
- RATE Issues Summer 2015
- The Flat Stanley Project
- Baby steps with EFP Courses
- Self-supporting and Self-monitoring Learning
- Developing Speaking Skills in the Secondary English Language Classroom
- Classroom vs. Staff Room. An Editorial
- Differentiated Learning
- The impact of literature in teaching a foreign language. A case study on the use of drama and its practical implications
- Designing Listening Material Based on Visual Multimodality Compositions
- RATE Issues Summer 2015
