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.
Video exchange project
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.
Using digital technologies
Student presentations
In this article I would like to give you a few tips and some advice on what I’ve learned from helping students prepare and deliver presentations.
Planning lessons and courses
Managing the lesson
Syllabus writing
Writing or developing an English language syllabus is a difficult task. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Planning lessons and courses
Non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication (body language, paralinguistics) has been a focus of attention for some time in areas such as the refinement of presentation skills, developing social skills, and even as a realistic alternative to the lie-detector test.
Using inclusive practices
Structured Inquiry
For the purpose of this article 'inquiry’ will be taken to mean 'a language act in which one attempts to elicit another’s help in going beyond his or her present understanding.' (Lindfors 1999)
Using inclusive practices
Context developing activities
It is widely recognized that second language (L2) mental lexicon must be independent of its first language (L1) counterpart, if learners are to use the target language effectively and fluently.
Knowing the subject
Seven steps to vocabulary learning
Have you ever considered why a learner (even an advanced one) can hear a difficult English word or phrase literally thousands of times and still not use that word in the way that a native speaker does?
Knowing the subject
Extensive reading
In general, students learning to read in English do not like reading and they rarely read. This is partly due to the way reading is approached in the language class.
Knowing the subject
Multi-word verbs: Methods and approaches
In the first of these two articles, Multi-word verbs: Learner problems, I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students.
Knowing the subject
Multi-word verbs: Learner problems
Multi-word verbs are complex and present problems for learners both in terms of their grammatical form and their lexical meaning.
Knowing the subject