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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.
Class contract
A class contract is an agreement made between learners and the teacher to follow certain rules and standards.
Class library
A class library is a collection of books kept in the classroom and used for extensive reading, not generally for classroom activities.
Class reader
A class reader is a book that the learners read and analyse together in the class and as homework over an extended period of time.
Class round-up
A class round-up is an activity where the teacher and learners summarise what they have been doing during the class.
Class survey
A class survey is an activity where all the learners in the group need to ask each other questions to find information, which they then need to analyze and report back to the class.
Class-centred teaching
The term class-centred teaching draws attention to the importance of behaving in ways that encourage classes to develop into cohesive groups.
Classroom management
Classroom management refers to the decisions a teacher makes regarding the physical environment and resources available to them, including furniture, resources, learners and themselves.
Clause
A clause is a phrase that contains a verb and normally a subject.
Cleft sentence
A cleft sentence is made by separating a single clause into two clauses, one main and one subordinate.
CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, is where a subject is taught in the target language rather than the first language of the learners.