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Listening for young learners

Submitted by TE Editor on 31 December, 2011 - 14:49

In this article I will briefly focus on how I try to develop listening skills with our young learners who are learning English as an additional language.

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Teaching without a coursebook

Submitted by TE Editor on 30 March, 2011 - 08:37

Whether you're starting with a new class or just changing direction a little the decision of how to structure a course without a coursebook can sometimes be difficult for a new or even experienced teacher.

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How to draw cats, dogs and birds

Submitted by Paul Braddock on 17 July, 2012 - 15:33

Do you teach young learners? Do you have to draw cats, dogs or birds on the board?

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How to draw animals

Submitted by Paul Braddock on 17 July, 2012 - 13:28

Do you teach young learners? Do you often have to draw animals on the board?

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Graphic Organisers

Submitted by TE Editor on 25 April, 2012 - 12:18

Visual 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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Using texts constructively: what are texts for?

Submitted by Michael Swan on 1 February, 2012 - 10:24

Text use may seem a dull topic after all the exciting matters that other guest writers have dealt with recently.

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Powerpoint for teachers

Submitted by Anonymous on 21 December, 2011 - 11:00

This is something I've already blogged about - if you have the right facilities in your classroom, powerpoint can be a very useful addition to your teaching toolkit.

If you're interested in some of the techniques mentioned here, there's another video that explains how to create the 'word bank': http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/rob-lewis/powerpoint-teachers-part-2

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Revising lexis: quality or quantity?

Submitted by leosel on 22 November, 2011 - 16:52

This article discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items.

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Teaching the tale: language and memory

Submitted by David Heathfield on 5 July, 2011 - 09:01

A feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or ‘language chunks’.

Using texts constructively 2: intensive input-output work

Submitted by Michael Swan on 1 February, 2011 - 18:10

This is the second of Michael Swan's articles for TeachingEnglish, in which he looks at the role of texts in the learning process.

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