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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.
Internalisation
Internalisation is the process of learning something so that it can be used as the basis for production.
Intonation
Intonation is the way the pitch of a speaker’s voice goes up or down as they speak.
Intransitive
Intransitive verbs do not have a direct object.
Intrapersonal intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.
Intrinsic motivation
Intrinsic motivation is a motivation to learn that comes from an internal force such as interest in language learning or the desire for further personal development in general.
Intrusion
Intrusion is a feature of connected speech.
Jigsaw
A jigsaw listening or reading activity is an information gap exercise.
Jumble activity
In a jumble activity learners need to put sentences or paragraphs from a text, or pictures illustrating a text, into the correct order.
Key points
The key points of a spoken or written text are the most important points.
Kinesics
Kinesics is the study of non-verbal communication achieved by movement of the body.