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.
Humanistic
Humanistic language teaching is an approach based on the principle that the whole being, emotional and social, needs to be engaged in learning, not just the mind.
Hypotheses
Hypotheses are possible ideas about language rules that learners form as they receive information.
Ice-breakers
Ice-breakers are speaking activities used with a new class in order to give the learners an opportunity to meet each other.
ICT
Information and Communication Technology, or ICT, refers to technological tools that are used to communicate and to manage information.
Idioms
Idioms are expressions whose meanings are different from the words that make them.
Immersion programme
In immersion programmes learners are fully immersed in the target language for a certain period of time, both in and outside the class.
Inductive approach
An inductive approach to teaching language starts with examples and asks learners to find rules.
Inference
Inference is the technique of finding answers from clues and from prior knowledge rather than directly.
Informal assessment
Informal assessment involves observing the learners as they learn and evaluating them from the data gathered.
What is an information gap activity?
An information gap activity is an activity where learners are missing the information they need to complete a task and need to talk to each other to find it.