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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.
Coherence
Coherence is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose.
Cohesion
Cohesion is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose, the other being coherence.
Collaborative activity
Collaborative activity involves learners working together in order to complete a task.
Collocation
Collocation refers to words that are found together in language.
Communicative approach
The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.
Communicative competence
Communicative competence refers to a learner’s ability to use language to communicate successfully.
Community-building software
Community-building software allows users to create and maintain an online community.
Compensation strategies
Compensation strategies are communication strategies used by learners to compensate for limitations in their language.
Compound word
A compound word is made up of other words.
Comprehensible input
Comprehensible input is language input that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding all the words and structures in it.