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An approach is a way of looking at teaching and learning.

A deductive approach to teaching language starts by giving learners rules, then examples, then practice. It is a teacher-centred approach to presenting new content.

The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.

An inductive approach to teaching language starts with examples and asks learners to find rules.

In the move away from teachers following one specific methodology, the eclectic approach is the label given to a teacher's use of techniques and activities from a range of language teaching approaches and methodologies.

In this talk, Phil provides an understanding of neurodiversity and how it can support our understanding of learners.

The lexical approach is a way of analysing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures.

A holistic approach to language sees it as a whole, which is not divisible in a meaningful way for teaching.

There are several ways to approach writing in the classroom. It should be said at the beginning that there is not necessarily any 'right' or 'best' way to teach writing skills.

In the first of these two articles, Multi-word verbs: Learner problems, I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students.