Articles

In the first of these articles, Content and Language Integrated Learning, I gave an introduction to this field. In this second article I will look more closely at how CLIL is realised in the classroom and suggest a framework for planning CLIL lessons.

I was teaching a monolingual group of 12 teenagers (15-17) at upper-intermediate level who were following a course book. The students were motivated but they needed a 'real’ communication task. 

Teaching grammar is a necessary part of any language course. Discover different ways to plan a lesson for teaching grammar depending on who you are teaching.

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.