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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.

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Collocation

Collocation refers to words that are found together in language.

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Communicative approach

The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.

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Communicative competence

Communicative competence refers to a learner’s ability to use language to communicate successfully.

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Compensation strategies

Compensation strategies are communication strategies used by learners to compensate for limitations in their language.

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Comprehensible input

Comprehensible input is language input that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding all the words and structures in it.

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Concept checking

Concept checking is finding out if a learner has understood a new item. There are a variety of ways to do this, including asking concept questions.

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Concept questions

Concept questions are used to find out if a learner has understood a new item.

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Concord

Concord refers to grammatical agreement between different parts of a sentence.