
Teaching Speaking
The stages of a lesson allow for a holistic approach to productive skills such as speaking In a lesson with the objective of practicing speaking, there are typically the three…
Read moreThe stages of a lesson allow for a holistic approach to productive skills such as speaking In a lesson with the objective of practicing speaking, there are typically the three…
Read moreChances are that at some point in your teaching career, you will teach or will have taught children. I had the classic scenario of starting with adults and slowly but…
Read moreWell known author and teacher developer Jim Scrivener spoke to me in an interview a couple of years ago about focusing on where learning is happening. He claims that we…
Read moreListening skills are complex and we need to consider more than just what a coursebook may provide. We also need to rethink the classic TESOL/TEFL techniques that we learned in…
Read moreEssential Phonetics, by Tony Penston “Essential Phonetics is a great book. It is very comprehensive and concise at the same time. It deals with pronunciation problems we always face in…
Read moreWe talk about the principle of differentiation in the TEFL Preparation Course and again in the Teaching English to Young Learners Course. In both courses we consider how to apply…
Read morePractical English Usage, by Michael Swan This was the first book I ever bought as a fledgling English teacher. It saved me on many an occasion when I was busy…
Read moreClassroom Dynamics, by Jill Hadfield Part of being a teacher is also like being a camp leader. How a group bonds, how they manage cultural difference, and solve problems at…
Read moreThe Image in English Language Teaching is a book edited by Kieran Donaghy and Daniel Xerri This is a publication I've participated in, contributing one of the chapters. The book features…
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