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Digital literacies: What are they and why should we care?It's a wired world. In our increasingly connected society new skills are needed. So-called '21st century skills' are making an appearance in curricula the world over as governments and educators recognise the need to educate children (and in many cases adults) in how to effectively navigate an increasingly digital world. |
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Carol Read: The secret of working with childrenIn February 2012, Carol Read gave a workshop at the British Council in Warsaw. Her talk covered a range of primary issues and she gave a number of invaluable tips about teaching primary students. Watch her talk here. |
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Graphic OrganisersVisual representations of information are by no means an innovation in education. The use of graphs and charts to represent statistical information and time-lines showing the sequence of historical events have long been accepted tools, while in language teaching, the mind map is already a common aid to brainstorming a topic. |
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Three wishes - and how to make them come true!As teachers of children, we often have three wishes. |
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Not Unit 5!In this article, Luke Meddings reflects on the constraints coursebooks can put on the learning experience in the classroom, and offers some suggestions on how we can overcome that.
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Starting primaryTeaching at primary level can cause many teachers, particularly those who have trained to teach adults, a variety of problems and generate a range of worries. |
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Reflective teaching: Exploring our own classroom practiceReflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works - a process of self-observation and self-evaluation. |
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Testing - why bother?This article will ask why we test learners of English. Before I start, let's get some terminology straight. I'm not talking about exams. We as a society need exams. |
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A Personality Orientated Approach to EFL TeachingIn the language classroom we often ask students to talk about or refer to their personal situation and experiences. This is seemingly good practice. |
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A Task-based approachIn recent years a debate has developed over which approaches to structuring and planning and implementing lessons are more effective. This article presents an overview of a task-based learning approach (TBL) and highlights its advantages over the more traditional Present, Practice, Produce (PPP) approach. |
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Action research Action research can make you a "student of teaching" (John Dewey). |
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Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?Experienced teachers sometimes ask themselves the question, 'Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?' |
An introduction to using visualisationVisualisation has been widely used in sports psychology over the last 30 years to enhance all aspects of performance. In this article I will be looking at some of the ways that it can be applied to language learning. |
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Sociocultural awareness in ELTThe sociocultural element in learning is particularly sensitive in EFL because in acquiring a language there is, to some extent, an appropriation of a cultural identity too. |
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Designing Business English programmes 2This is the second article in a three part series. In the first part we looked at needs analysis and how to define goals and objectives. This second part looks at how we can design a business English syllabus. |
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Monitoring speakingAs teachers I think we all accept that there is a role for correcting student speech in the language classroom. However, in my experience this tends to take place either when students are speaking in open class |
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Rediscovering silent grammarMany of us may be familiar with aspects of the Silent Way, mainly because in recent years it has been popular to use "Silent Way" techniques for teaching pronunciation, |
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MonitoringMonitoring is a classroom management technique loosely defined as listening to the learners for their accuracy and fluency, or checking to see whether activities are going to plan and that the learners are 'on task'. |
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