As mentioned in Error Correction 1, students can differ greatly in their attitude to producing spoken English. Some are only interested in developing their fluency at the expense of accuracy while others are so focused on accuracy that they have no fluency.

What makes an effective piece of writing? Good writers plan and revise, rearrange and delete text, re-reading and producing multiple drafts before they produce their finished document. This is what a process writing approach is about.

When it comes to error correction we are dealing with one individual's reaction to a student's piece of writing or utterance. This inevitably means that there will be some disagreement among teachers about what, when, and how to correct.

This is the first part of an article looking at the theories of language which form the foundations of the lexical approach to teaching English.

This is the second part of an article looking at the theories of language which form the foundations of the lexical approach to teaching English.

Visualisation has been widely used in sports psychology over the last 30 years to enhance all aspects of performance. In this article I will be looking at some of the ways that it can be applied to language learning.

This article looks at how we can help our learners practise real-life speaking tasks so they are better equipped for dealing with other English speakers outside the classroom.

Many of us may be familiar with aspects of the Silent Way, mainly because in recent years it has been popular to use "Silent Way" techniques for teaching pronunciation, for example in the work of Adrian Underhill in Sound Foundations (Heinemann, 1994). 

Here are some tried-and-tested ideas when listening to a pop song.