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.
Lexical Approach 2 - What does the lexical approach look like?
This is the second part of an article looking at the theories of language which form the foundations of the lexical approach to teaching English.
Motivation and e-learning - personal reflections
E-learning sites range from static Web pages to interactive learning classrooms. This article concentrates on interactive learning classrooms and focuses on issues of student motivation.
Teaching mixed-ability classes 2
You may often be teaching a class which has learners who are clearly of different levels. They may have different starting levels of English or they may learn at very different speeds – for any number of reasons.
Teaching mixed ability classes 1
You may often be teaching a class which has learners who clearly have different levels of English. They may have different starting levels or they may learn at very different speeds – for any number of reasons.
Low-tech learners
Many teachers who have tried to take an English class onto the internet have often come back with a similar problem - students who are reluctant to work on computers.
Motivating pupils to read 2
This is the second of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating.
Motivating pupils to read
This is the first of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating.
Group work versus whole-class activities
This article looks at the importance of using a variety of class groupings to keep lessons engaging and dynamic and to accommodate different learning styles.
An introduction to using visualisation
Visualisation has been widely used in sports psychology over the last 30 years to enhance all aspects of performance. In this article I will be looking at some of the ways that it can be applied to language learning.
Designing a WWW reading task
The world wide web offers a myriad of opportunities for authentic English reading texts.