Professional development for teachers
Here you’ll find a wide range of free, self-access training and resources designed to help you build the skills and knowledge you need as an English teacher.
All TeachingEnglish professional development resources are aligned with the British Council Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teachers, to help you plan your learning and develop the areas most relevant to your professional growth.
You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:
- by professional practices – to focus on specific areas of teaching where you want to deepen your skills and expertise
- by professional development levels – to find resources matched to your training and experience and see how they can help you progress within each area.
Each resource includes a timer icon to show how much time you’ll need, helping you plan your learning effectively.
Language Aptitude
Language aptitude refers to the potential that a person has for learning languages.
Language usage
Language usage refers to the rules for making language, i.e. the structures used.
Language use
Language use refers to the communicative meaning of language.
Learner training
Learner training involves helping learners find out how they learn most effectively.
Learning strategies
Learning strategies are tools and techniques that learners develop as they learn.
Lexical approach
The lexical approach is a way of analysing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures.
Lexical chunk
A lexical chunk is a group of words that are commonly found together.
Lexical set
A lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form.
Lexicon
A lexicon is often used to describe the knowledge that a speaker has about the words of a language.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca is a language that is used widely outside the country where it is spoken as a native language.