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.
Teacher diary
A teacher diary is a diary where a teacher records what happens in their classes and their thoughts about it.
Teacher role
Teacher role refers to the different functions a teacher can have in a class.
Teacher talking time
Teacher talking time (TTT) is the time that teachers spend talking in class, rather than learners.
Team teaching
Team teaching is when two or more teachers plan to teach a class together for some reason, for a lesson, or more than a lesson.
Tense
A tense of a verb is a past or present form.
Test teach test
Test, teach, test (TTT) is an approach to teaching where learners first complete a task or activity without help from the teacher.
Thinking frames
Mario Rinvolucri uses the term ‘thinking frames’ to describe useful ways of thinking about what he does in the classroom.
Time lines
Time lines are diagrams used to represent the relationship between a verb tense and time.
Tone
Tone refers to the pitch changes made to affect the meaning of words and phrases.
Top down
Top-down processing of language happens when someone uses background information to predict the meaning of language they are going to listen to or read.