"How many English words do you know?" I ask participants of a short-term English teacher training programme. There are smiles, squeezed foreheads, I-have-no-idea expressions.

I often hear from my colleagues that maintaining reading habits (i.e.

Today was a different day for me because I am a teacher. I have been a teacher of English for more than twenty years. And every year this day adds fuel to my life as a teacher.

In Plymouth, my teacher Tony Wright used to talk about JIJO’s: jet-in-jet-out people.

It goes without saying that teachers are responsible for the change that takes place in learners.

Continuing my discussion on teacher networking, in my last blog I wrote about setting up teachers’ clubs in a single school or in school cluster areas.

Dear Vivek, Thank you for timely asking me to make practical suggestions on teacher networks.

We constantly discuss the issue of teacher professional development and it is more so in the field of ELT.

The teaching English Team interviewed me about my views on ELT and teaching in Nepal.

I am Laxman Gnawali from Kathmandu, Nepal. I prefer to be called Laxman. The surname is problematic.