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Understanding your context: Theme wrap-up
Learn more about how understanding your teaching context can help you plan effective classes and support your learners.
Understanding my context
AI guidelines for teachers
These practical guidelines offer principles to help you make responsible choices when using AI in your teaching.
Using digital technologies
Top tips for teaching speaking
Read our six top tips for teaching speaking skills and helping learners become confident English speakers.
Knowing the subject
Moving between languages: Translanguaging pedagogy with picturebooks
Discover how moving between languages in class can benefit your learners, and learn strategies for translanguaging with picturebooks.
Using multilingual practices
Understanding my context
Teaching the schwa
If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound – the schwa.
Knowing the subject
How can AI tools help neurodivergent learners?
How can AI support language learners with dyslexia, ADHD, autism and other special educational needs? Discover practical ways in which AI tools can make your classroom more inclusive.
Using digital technologies
Using inclusive practices
Strategic repetition for accelerated speaking fluency
In this article, Nadia Elhabak gives us some ideas about how to use repetition techniques in class to improve learners' fluency when speaking.
Managing the lesson
Knowing the subject
An introduction to assessment
Assessment is a key part of teaching and learning, but what different types of assessment can we use, and what do teachers and learners need to know about assessment?
Assessing learning
Multilingualism: The benefits of using learners' (other) languages in the classroom
'English only' and the aim of creating an immersive environment in the English language classroom has dominated ELT for many years. However, there is now overwhelming research showing that the use of multiple languages in the classroom is an aid to learning.
Using multilingual practices