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The productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.

The receptive skills are listening and reading, because learners do not need to produce language to do these, they receive and understand it.

This article is written for teachers with large classes of students who have encountered some of the following or similar problems during speaking activities in their classroom.

All teachers want their students to be successful but are we including thinking skills, that will become life skills, with the four skills we are most comfortable teaching? 

The language skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading are often divided into sub-skills.

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.

This article looks at the role of translation as an activity for learners in the ELT classroom.

In this discussion forum, a panel of experts and practitioners discuss what 21st century skills are and the importance of their integration into learning.