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      Articles on methodology

      From TPR to Dogme: do you know your methodology?

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      Designing Business English programmes 2

      This 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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      Methods, post-method, and métodos


      This is the first of two articles by Scott Thornbury for TeachingEnglish.

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      Designing Business English programmes 1

      This is the first of three articles on designing Business English programmes to suit students' needs.

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      Translation activities in the language classroom

      This article looks at the role of translation as an activity for learners in the ELT classroom.

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      Making a difficult young learner group better

      Why are some young learner classes successful and others a constant struggle?

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      The voices that guide us

      Which voices do you hear in the course of your professional life, as you prepare, teach and reflect? Which ones are the strongest? Which do you really listen to and take notice of?

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      Teacher-induced neuroses

      This is the first in Rod Bolitho's series of articles for TeachingEnglish.

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      Story telling: the language teacher's oldest technique

      In this article Mario Rinvolucri explores a range of story telling techniques that he uses in the classroom and gives some insights into why these techniques are effective.

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      CLIL: A lesson framework

      In the first of these articles, Content and Language Integrated Learning, I gave an introduction to this field. In this second article I will look more closely at how CLIL is realised in the classroom and suggest a framework for planning CLIL lessons.

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      Community language learning

      Community language learning (CLL) was primarily designed for monolingual conversation classes where the teacher-counsellor would be able to speak the learners' L1.

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      Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks

      The term feedback can apply to a number of classroom situations and procedures, but here it refers to a range of techniques employed by the teacher to facilitate responses from the students to an exercise or task.

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      Content and Language Integrated Learning

      Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the umbrella term describing both learning another (content) subject such as physics or geography through the medium of a foreign language and learning a foreign language by studying a content-based subject.

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      Content-based instruction

      In recent years content-based instruction has become increasingly popular as a means of developing linguistic ability. It has strong connections to project work, task-based learning and a holistic approach to language instruction

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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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      The essence of creativity

       This is the third in a series of four articles on transforming activities for creativity. The first introduced the concept of creativity in the language classroom.

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      Teaching children with additional educational needs

      This article is about teaching English to children who may have learning difficulties or other additional educational needs.

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      Lexical Approach 2 - What does the lexical approach look like?

      This article looks at the theories of language which form the foundations of the lexical approach to teaching English.

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      Discipline problems

      In this article, we'll be looking at the causes of discipline problems, and at various ways of solving the problems.