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An in depth look at how English language institutions, schools and teachers can make their classes more inclusive by adapting their policies and approaches to cater for children with a diverse range of educational needs.

Here is a selection of top tips to help teachers of English develop their professional competence. They cover issues of professional conduct, strategies for dealing with students and their language production, the importance of meaningful communication and the example the teacher sets. This is the second of two such articles.

Here is a selection of top tips to help teachers of English develop their professional competence. They cover issues of professional conduct, strategies for dealing with students and their language production, the importance of meaningful communication and the example the teacher sets. This is the first of two such articles.

This article explores some very useful classroom management strategies for teaching young learners, which requires special knowledge of child development and specific skills to maintain a calm and controlled learning environment. 

This article looks at how we can help our learners practise real-life speaking tasks so they are better able to deal with other English speakers outside the classroom.

In this, and an earlier article, we look at the internet and how it can be used by teachers of English as a tool for their own development and as a resource for classroom teaching.

In this, and a following article, we’ll be looking at the internet and how it can be used by teachers of English as a tool for their own development and as a resource for classroom teaching.

Many of us may be familiar with aspects of the Silent Way, mainly because in recent years it has been popular to use "Silent Way" techniques for teaching pronunciation, for example in the work of Adrian Underhill in Sound Foundations (Heinemann, 1994). 

This article explores what we mean by 'repertoire’ in English language teaching terms and why it is something that teachers should regularly review, revise and extend!

If you would like to set up an out-of-class English Learning Circle with your students, here are 8 things you need to consider: