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.
Model
A model is an example of the target language a teacher shows learners to help them notice language patterns, or to encourage them to imitate.
Monitor
To monitor is to watch and listen to learners while they are doing an activity but not to lead them in the activity.
Monolingual
Students in a monolingual class speak the same first language, and will share most aspects of a culture.
Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest single unit of language that has meaning.
Multi-word verbs - MWVs
Multi-word verbs, or MWVs, are verbs made up of two or more words.
Multilingual
A multilingual class is a class where the learners speak a variety of first languages.
Multiple choice
Multiple choice items are questions that require learners to choose the best response from a group of answers.
Multiple intelligence
Multiple Intelligence Theory says that there are at least eight different kinds of intelligence, and that human beings possess all of them to different degrees.
Musical intelligence
Musical intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.
Narrative tenses
Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past.