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.
Allophone
Allophones are phonetic variations - different pronunciations - of the same phoneme
Alveolar consonants
Alveolar consonants are consonant sounds that are produced with the tongue close to or touching the ridge behind the teeth on the roof of the mouth.
Anaphoric reference
Anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning.
Anchoring
Anchoring is a technique used to manage emotional states in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Antonym
An antonym is a word which means the opposite to another word.
Applied linguistics
Applied linguistics is a field of study that looks at how linguistics can help understand real-life problems in areas such as psychology, sociology and education.
Approach
An approach is a way of looking at teaching and learning.
Appropriacy
Appropriacy refers to whether a word is suitable for the context it is being used in.
ARC
ARC is a teaching model put forward by Jim Scrivener (1994) and can be used to describe three possible stages of a lesson.
Aspect
See an explanation of the term ‘Aspect’.