Articles - ideas on teaching
In this section you will find articles from experienced teachers and ELT professionals on a wide range of subjects. Click the links below to select articles under each topic area.

Designing Business English programmes 3  
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This is the final article in a three part series.

Average: 4.3 (6 votes)
Dogme: nothing if not critical  
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This is Scott Thornbury's second article for TeachingEnglish.

Average: 3.7 (24 votes)
Designing Business English programmes 2  
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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.

Average: 4.6 (31 votes)
Methods, post-method, and métodos  
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This is the first of two articles by Scott Thornbury for TeachingEnglish.

Average: 3.6 (23 votes)
Designing Business English programmes 1  
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This is the first of three articles on designing Business English programmes to suit students' needs.

Average: 3.9 (40 votes)
Teaching and learning through social networks  
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In 2007, the British Council conducted market research into how the Internet has affected the preferred learning styles of young people wanting to learn English around the world.

Average: 4 (20 votes)
Controversies in Business English  
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I began teaching business English in 1980 and have observed over the years huge differences in the way we teach.

Average: 4 (24 votes)
Controversies in using technology in language teaching  
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In his first article for TeachingEnglish, Pete Sharma considers some of the controversies surrounding the use of technology in and out the classroom.

Average: 3.7 (27 votes)
Translation activities in the language classroom  
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This article looks at the role of translation as an activity for learners in the ELT classroom.

Average: 3.5 (46 votes)
Teaching the schwa  
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If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.

Average: 3.2 (77 votes)
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