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.
ELT
ELT refers to the activity and industry of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Embedding
Embedding refers to the process of inserting one sentence into another sentence.
Emoticons
Emoticons, a form of paralanguage, are symbols made up of characters available on a keyboard.
Empathy
Empathy is the ability to imagine another person’s thoughts, beliefs and feelings. In an ELT context, it normally refers to the ability to understand how a learner is feeling.
Empowerment
Empowerment refers to giving learners the power to make their own decisions about learning rather than the teacher having all the control.
Englishes
There are many kinds of Englishes spoken around the world, both as a first and second language and the term 'Englishes’ suggests this.
Errors
Errors are mistakes caused by a learner not knowing something.
ESOL
English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, refers to learning English as a new resident in an English-speaking country.
ESP
English for Specific Purposes, or ESP, refers to learning English because you have a specific need.
Exploitation
Exploitation is the way a teacher or learner uses resources to meet their learning aims.