In this section, you will find a number of articles, which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Managing the lesson'. From primary-aged students to adult learners of English, the articles you will find here are practical, insightful and full of ideas to support your teaching and planning for all kinds of classrooms.

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Encouraging peer response

Some time ago, I wrote an article about different ways responding to your students' written work. This present article builds on those ideas and gives suggestions for how students can respond to each other's writings.

Monitoring speaking - methodology article

Monitoring speaking

As teachers I think we all accept that there is a role for correcting student speech in the language classroom.

Sense of humour - methodology article

Sense of humour

For me, one of the most underexploited and neglected areas within language learning is humour. How many course books have a section on humour?

The teacher as a teaching aid - methodology article

The teacher as a teaching aid

Although we now live in a high tech world and have access to a variety of teaching aids, there is one aid that is convenient, portable, uses no electricity, can be used effectively in light or dark and is available all the time.

Discipline problems - methodology article

Discipline problems

In this article, we'll be looking at the causes of discipline problems, and at various ways of solving the problems.

Group work v. whole-class activities - methodology article

Group work v. whole-class activities

Group and pair work (henceforth group work) are so much a part of our everyday teaching routine that we hardly pause to think before partitioning the class to tackle some particular communicative task.

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