Articles
Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Should you be developing your own materials?
This article looks at some important considerations for developing your own materials.
Managing the lesson
Managing resources
Teacher cognition and assessment
This free training module provides an overview of language teacher cognition and its relationship to assessment. We discuss how assessment can be used to support the learning process.
Assessing learning
Developing cross-cultural awareness in the monolingual classroom
Language learning for life as responsible citizens of the international community must include cultural awareness.
Using inclusive practices
Addressing human trafficking and slavery in the classroom
According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, over 40 million people are enslaved today, and of those, ten million are 17 years old or younger.
Using inclusive practices
Developing teachers of refugees
Do you have refugees in your class? Do you work as a teacher trainer for refugee contexts? Or are you just interested in this major issue in the troubled world we live in?
Using inclusive practices
Language learning and social cohesion in a multicultural classroom with vulnerable learners
This piece seeks to answer questions related to the correlation between language learning and social cohesion in the context of a multicultural/multilingual classroom with more focus on refugee and recent migrant learners.
Using inclusive practices
How to address the effects of trauma in the English language classroom
This article looks at working with learners who have suffered trauma and suggests ways in which teachers can address this in the English language classroom.
Using inclusive practices
How language affects refugees’ abilities to access education, training and employment
The importance of language in schools, training centres and workplaces cannot be underestimated in refugee communities, especially given that so often they find themselves economically, socially and politically marginalised.
Using inclusive practices
Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
If you already work in the EAP sector, or are interested in starting to work in the sector, there is information here to help you.
Knowing the subject
Understanding the educational context
How to develop a more creative climate in your classroom
Alan Maley suggests some excellent ideas for how to set up the conditions in the classroom in order to enhance creativity.
Using 21C skills or core skills