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.
Listening and elementary learners
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.
Learner diaries
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.
Dogme: A teacher's view
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.
Reading and elementary learners
One of the key issues in getting elementary learners to read is that of self-confidence. Discover different ways to help learners build confidence and become better readers.
A traditional or holistic syllabus: Which is better?
Traditional and holistic syllabuses reflect different views of language, language learning and teaching. Both viewpoints are quite valid, and most courses nowadays will reflect elements of both.
English sentence stress
Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike.
Teaching English to blind students
Throughout the years that I taught English to the blind I had to answer many questions asked by people who had no experience dealing with the blind.
How to approach discursive writing
Since writing is primarily about organising information and communicating meaning, generating ideas is clearly going to be a crucial part of the writing process.
Negotiated objectives
Many learners, especially at intermediate level, express the feeling that they are not making any progress. This is because their progress is not as noticeable as it was when they started learning English.
Creating a class play
In this article a teacher reflects on his experiences of creating plays and using them to help motivate students to develop their English.