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Catarina Chase Aleixo
Catarina is a content writer, journalist, and translator based in Portugal. She started her professional journey as an ESL teacher and later transitioned to writing. She is bilingual in Portuguese and English and loves to discover new places and experience different ways of life.
Posts by Catarina
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April 30, 2021
6 Best EFL Blogs All Teachers Should Check Out
We interviewed the creators responsible for 6 of the best EFL blogs around today to find out more about why they started blogging, who should read their posts, and how... -
April 5, 2021
Bridge Partners With Latin American Governments to Support English Teacher Development
Education systems in Latin America are prioritizing English language proficiency as a necessary skill for graduates to be equipped for success in an increasingly globalized world, according to a report from... -
January 21, 2021
Spitting Rhymes in the Classroom: Bridge Partners With Lo-Fi to Mix Hip-Hop and EFL
In 2019, Miles Iton found himself in a classroom full of Taiwanese sixth graders who were looking on as he put together his entire DJ set-up at the front of... -
November 6, 2020
Pipe Dream or Possibility? Moving Abroad to Teach English During the Pandemic
Missouri resident, English teacher, and blogger, Kristin Blake, has wanted to move to France since high school when her French teacher introduced her to French language and culture. She made... -
November 5, 2020
Online ELT Marketplaces: How They Work, What They Charge & How to Make the Most of Them
When thriving language–learning app, Busuu, acquired video-tutoring language marketplace, Verbling, back in mid-January 2020, it was perhaps not fully aware of quite how prescient its “double-digit million dollar acquisition” had been. At... -
September 30, 2020
Native Speakerism: Discriminatory Practice or Response to Market Demands?
English has become the world’s first truly global language. It is the global lingua franca for business, diplomacy, and tourism; it is the unofficial first language of the Internet; and...