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Assistants are not usually expected to carry out formal assessment of their learners with tests or marking. However, students need feedback as they come towards the end of their time with you.

In this article for teachers of young children, Carol Read explains how to achieve the three ingredients that are vital for teaching and learning success.

How can texts (audio or written) be best used in class to improve language skills? This article explores how texts can help learners with both receptive and productive skills.

You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts.

If you have a computer and a projector in your classroom, PowerPoint can be a very useful addition to your teaching toolkit.

This article looks at ways to improve your students’ abilities to both explore, store and use vocabulary.

This article discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items.

As a teacher I had always perceived 'reading aloud’ as a 'taboo’ in the EFL classroom since it focuses specifically on a 'bottom-up’ approach where learners can fall into traps of worrying about 100% comprehension or simply read aloud without understanding the text.

Find out more about the Lexical Approach and how you can use its principles to support your learners’ language development and improve both fluency and accuracy in the English language classroom.