Welcome to 2019. We have four new blog topics to start the new year, including some reflection on last year, your suggestions for using...
28 February, 2019
19 February, 2019
Develop your English language teaching skills and learn how to plan and deliver effective English lessons with this online course.
18 February, 2019
Our featured blog of the month award for January 2019 goes to Breakout English and their post How to teach Cambridge exam classes.
12 February, 2019
Teaching is a passion, an excitement and all about life. Witnessing the spark of understanding in the students’ eyes, the rapport and bond...
12 February, 2019
Project Based Learning should be, from my point of view, the right path to follow in our education. But before making a 360 degree turn in...
9 February, 2019
Projects are a great way to develop language and other essential skills, however we need to give students a bit more than an "Off we go...
6 February, 2019
Teachers can always communicate!
3 February, 2019
Sometimes teaching hurts. Sometimes it is difficult and nonsense. But in your heart you know that it is not always like that, it is just a...
31 January, 2019
When I decided to become a teacher of English, I never thought that the fact that I was not a native English speaker would have any sort of...
28 January, 2019
If we have no doubt about the benefits of cooperative learning, we should start by setting an example. Two teachers and a teacher trainer...
27 January, 2019
It’s not just your students who are there to learn. In learning you will teach, in teaching you will learn.
25 January, 2019
Teaching a language is not just a question of linguistic skills, culture also has a role to play. And we can say that both, language and...
23 January, 2019
If there is a will, there is a way. If there is no way, we have to find one. And if we can't find, we have to create one. 2018 was the life...
22 January, 2019
TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Grants...
22 January, 2019
AQUEDUTO, an organisation promoting quality assurance for online training, has commissioned an informative review of the literature in the...
22 January, 2019
There are often times in a lesson when an unplanned opportunity for learning - language or otherwise - arises. Think of a time this has...
21 January, 2019
Sometimes our students show an unexpected interest in a topic that we mention. We have to make the most of that sudden sparkle of ...
20 January, 2019
Sometimes you have to wonder. Why do I do all this? The money is not good at all, the hours are long, the preparation takes up most of your...
20 January, 2019
One of the things I love when I teach is improvising. Don't get me wrong; I always prepare a lesson plan. But most of the times I don't...
17 January, 2019
Bridging the generation gap by bridging the digital divide.
8 January, 2019
For many learners of English, particularly those with non-Indo-European language backgrounds, English syntax can often be a nightmare. Even...
8 January, 2019
Let’s use all the planned and unplanned opportunities for learning!
19 December, 2018
Technological predicament- Will I lose my job to a robot?
17 December, 2018
There is a wide-spread illusion that modern teenagers are less sociable and more egoistic.
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28 February, 2019
Welcome to 2019. We have four new blog topics to start the new year, including some reflection on last year, your suggestions for using...
19 February, 2019
Develop your English language teaching skills and learn how to plan and deliver effective English lessons with this online course.
18 February, 2019
Our featured blog of the month award for January 2019 goes to Breakout English and their post How to teach Cambridge exam classes.
12 February, 2019
Teaching is a passion, an excitement and all about life. Witnessing the spark of understanding in the students’ eyes, the rapport and bond...
12 February, 2019
Project Based Learning should be, from my point of view, the right path to follow in our education. But before making a 360 degree turn in...
9 February, 2019
Projects are a great way to develop language and other essential skills, however we need to give students a bit more than an "Off we go...
6 February, 2019
Teachers can always communicate!
3 February, 2019
Sometimes teaching hurts. Sometimes it is difficult and nonsense. But in your heart you know that it is not always like that, it is just a...
31 January, 2019
When I decided to become a teacher of English, I never thought that the fact that I was not a native English speaker would have any sort of...
28 January, 2019
If we have no doubt about the benefits of cooperative learning, we should start by setting an example. Two teachers and a teacher trainer...
27 January, 2019
It’s not just your students who are there to learn. In learning you will teach, in teaching you will learn.
25 January, 2019
Teaching a language is not just a question of linguistic skills, culture also has a role to play. And we can say that both, language and...
23 January, 2019
If there is a will, there is a way. If there is no way, we have to find one. And if we can't find, we have to create one. 2018 was the life...
22 January, 2019
TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Grants...
22 January, 2019
AQUEDUTO, an organisation promoting quality assurance for online training, has commissioned an informative review of the literature in the...
22 January, 2019
There are often times in a lesson when an unplanned opportunity for learning - language or otherwise - arises. Think of a time this has...
21 January, 2019
Sometimes our students show an unexpected interest in a topic that we mention. We have to make the most of that sudden sparkle of ...
20 January, 2019
Sometimes you have to wonder. Why do I do all this? The money is not good at all, the hours are long, the preparation takes up most of your...
20 January, 2019
One of the things I love when I teach is improvising. Don't get me wrong; I always prepare a lesson plan. But most of the times I don't...
17 January, 2019
Bridging the generation gap by bridging the digital divide.
8 January, 2019
For many learners of English, particularly those with non-Indo-European language backgrounds, English syntax can often be a nightmare. Even...
8 January, 2019
Let’s use all the planned and unplanned opportunities for learning!
19 December, 2018
Technological predicament- Will I lose my job to a robot?
17 December, 2018
There is a wide-spread illusion that modern teenagers are less sociable and more egoistic.
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28 September, 2008
Learning English in a group is much more effective than on a one-to-one basis
27 October, 2015
How to link lessons together
29 November, 2009
This blog looks at word order.
6 September, 2016
The ELT Council, Malta has published a free downloadable book, ‘Creativity in English Language Teaching’, edited by Daniel Xerri and Odette...
7 November, 2013
Ongoing evaluation in basic education
7 October, 2018
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a blog named Invest in yourself tipping other novice teachers on how to pursue professional...
26 February, 2013
Dear Tanja,wrote...."Please do send more - do you have something which is a bit longer but similarly insightful? .... Sth like 250...
11 July, 2018
Keeping the needs and aspirations of the learners in view, the curriculum designers frame the syllabus for a given subject which eventually...
4 April, 2014
Dear Elena, I know how worried you are this August because you are a university graduate now and in just a few days you will set off on a...
15 September, 2015
Teachers Research! is a new kind of book for the field of English language teacher-research, containing stories arising from poster...
30 October, 2009
This is a module I wrote for teachers at upper primary stage in India.
15 December, 2009
I don't know what a railway journey is like in other countries but I know pretty well what it is like in India. I would like to share my...
12 May, 2015
We are pleased to announce three new EnglishAgenda continuing professional development webinars coming up in May.
24 November, 2017
There is a great variety of pedagogical applications of mobile technology in ELT. I would like to share a practical example to integrate...
6 June, 2008
Hello everyone, I've just posted a longish response to Jorgelina from Argentina about TBA and Young Learners at the end of my...
28 July, 2016
Is it better to let your lesson flow on and just react to whatever comes inside the class?
13 January, 2011
The title of this entry is the first sentence in Chapter 1 of Maryanne Wolf's book Proust and the Squid (2007). This is a very punchy...
15 June, 2009
In his landmark historical study of methods, Kelly (1969) argued that methodological choices are contingent on higher-level decisions at...
25 November, 2009
Over the last few weeks I have been busy delivering training presentations and workshops to help teachers use various free web based tools...
28 July, 2016
One of most well-known management philosophies in recent years has been Google's "20% time". This post is about an attempt to implement 20...
11 September, 2014
Applications for the 2015 ELTons are now being accepted. Now in their thirteenth year, the ELTons awards, run by the British Council and...
27 October, 2016
Have you produced an innovative and functional ELT product or service in the last two years?
15 June, 2017
Find out who won a British Council ELTon award for innovation in English Language Teaching products and services.
9 December, 2016
In ELT, and in education in general, there are many terms and phrases that seem to be ‘in fashion’ at a particular time.
10 August, 2009
How we teach must reflect how our students learn, it must also reflect the world they will emerge into. This is a world that is rapidly...