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.
Rachael Harris - Bloomifying stories in the Inclusive Practice Classroom
Storytelling has become the new buzz in ELT, which is logical when you consider that it’s one of the few wholly authentic activities that we do in the classroom.
Assessing level and CEFR
This free training module provides an overview of issues relating to assessing level. We explore why this issue might be challenging and offer a practical approach to devising assessments at a particular level.
Assessing young learners
This free training module provides an overview of the issues of assessing English as a foreign language for young learners.
Assessment for learning toolkit
This free training module helps develop knowledge of the principles of Assessment for Learning (AfL) and also provides an overview of practical strategies which can be used in language learning classrooms.
Language assessment for teachers
This free training module provides an introduction to the topic of language testing and assessment (LTA) and why it is important for both teachers and students.
Language assessment resources
This free training module provides an introduction to key resources for language testing and assessment .
Introducing a mentoring model in a large-scale teacher development project in India
In this article, Simon Borg and Jon Parnham write about the benefits of mentoring schemes in the context of a large-scale teacher development project in India.
Scott Thornbury - Seven things beginning with M
In this talk, Scott Thornbury looks at some of the basic principles of learning and education.
Action Research: as easy as 1, 2, 3
This article by David Petrie looks at three simple steps involved in action research.