Professional development for teachers

When our students listen to pop songs in English, browse web sites in English or watch movies in English they frequently meet language rich in its use of metaphors.

This is the second part of an article on drilling, a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms for many years. It was a key feature of audio lingual approaches to language teaching which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice.

This is the first part of an article on drilling, a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms for many years. It was a key feature of audio lingual approaches to language teaching which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice.

Vocabulary is crucial for getting meaning from a written or oral text. Without knowledge of key vocabulary in a text, a learner may have serious trouble understanding the message.

For me, one of the most underexploited and neglected areas within language learning is humour. How many course books have a section on humour?

This article is about bringing some energy and excitement to the process of writing in the classroom. It’s about how to create a writing environment that is 'authentic’, purposeful and communicative.

This article explores how you can encourage your students to focus on content in their writing and gives ideas for how to respond to it.

This article is about making the listening experience in the classroom more similar to what we do in real life. It’s about giving our students some choice in what they listen to and what they take from it.

When teaching large classes of students year after year it can become very difficult to see each student as an individual with individual needs and abilities.

In this article, one teacher gives us her view of how the ideas and principles behind the Dogme approach to teaching have shaped her classroom practice.