Articles
Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Skills circuits: Recycling language
Skills circuits are a fun way to review language.
Blogging for ELT
This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool.
Connected speech – part 2
Learn about aspects of connected speech and help learners understand them.
Word stress
A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and practising word stress can provide one or two of those engagements.
Test question types
In my previous article Test writing I looked at some of the difficulties of writing good tests and how to make tests more reliable and useful.
Test writing
If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed quite a challenge and one that takes patience, experience and a degree of trial and error.
Using mind maps to develop writing
Mind maps can be used for a multitude of purposes. This article outlines how they can effectively be used to help support and develop students’ writing skills.
Connected speech – part 1
What is connected speech? Discover strategies for teaching pronunciation and helping learners understand weak forms.
Monitoring speaking
This article provides practical solutions to overcome the problems of monitoring speech in the classroom and ensure that we, as teachers, are providing valuable feedback to our learners to aid their communication skills.
Delexicalised verbs 2
In the first part of this article the writer explored the use of delexicalised verbs and the problems they create for our learners. He now goes on to outline some ways in which we can help our learners with this tricky area and help them to make their English sound more natural.