Emma
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…
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Chances 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…
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Well 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…
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Listening 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…
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Essential 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…
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We 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…
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Practical 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…
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Classroom 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…
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The 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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