Professional development for teachers

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has been around in language teaching longer than we may realise. Those teachers who incorporate elements of suggestopedia, community language learning, music, drama and body language into their lessons are already drawing on NLP as it stood twenty years ago.

Dictation has been a feature of language classrooms for hundreds of years. However, for many teachers these days, the word 'dictation' is synonymous with 'old-fashioned', 'boring', and 'teacher-centred'.

What are podcasts, why might your students benefit from listening to them, and how might you go about using and producing them?

In this article, the value of using storybooks in a young learner classroom is highlighted and explored, looking at its strengths and benefits in terms of language acquisition as well as promoting socio-cultural understanding.

This article looks at what teachers should consider when positioning themselves in the classroom at various stages of the lesson and the effect it has on their learners.

A lot of teachers get the same look - the sigh, the rolling eye, the slump. 'We’re going to be doing poetry in the next few classes!' You cringe through it, they cringe through it.

I like to bring poetry into the classroom because I believe that it is important and motivating for students to work with authentic texts.

This article examines how a video exchange project can stimulate motivation and interest by providing an authentic context for learners to communicate with learners from a different country.

Writing or developing an English language syllabus is a difficult task. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.