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.
Blending
Blending is one of the many ways new words are made in English.
Bodily/kinaesthetic intelligence
Bodily/kinaesthetic intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.
Bottom up
Bottom-up processing happens when someone tries to understand language by looking at individual meanings or grammatical characteristics of the most basic units of the text, (e.g. sounds for a listening or words for a reading), and moves from these to trying to understand the whole text.
Brainstorming
Brainstorming is the random generation of ideas based around a topic.
Cataphoric reference
Cataphoric reference means that a word in a text refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand.
Categorisation
Categorisation is a task where learners have to put language into different categories.
Catenation
Catenation is one of the ways speakers join words together.
CBT
Computer-based testing, or CBT, is testing using a computer for all or part of the test.
Choral repetition
Choral repetition is when the teacher or a learner models language and the group of learners repeat it together.
Chunks
Chunks are groups of words that can be found together in language.