Chia Suan Chong

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Chia Suan Chong blogged for English Teaching professional for 8 years, every fortnight, writing her final post back in September 2019. During her time as a blogger, she wrote 173 blog posts, writing from 5 different cities Ã¢â‚¬â€œ through holidays, through changes in her career, through 3 periods of maternity leave. She took on different roles as she continued to blog as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a communication skills trainer, an intercultural skills trainer, a writer, a freelancer and an educator and her blogs reflected those experiences as well as discussing controversial and topic issues in ELT and reporting back from conferences. Fascinated by the interplay between culture, language and thought, Chia is now an intercultural skills trainer, materials developer and author. She continues to write for Pavilion ELTÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s magazines and had a long-running column in ETp called "Not Only But Also". She is also the author of Successful International Communication (published by Pavilion Publishing and Media, 2018), and is now based in York.

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Work your students into your lessons!

2016-07-19

How can we adapt our lessons to our students’ needs and interests? How can we personalise our materials to better motivate our learners? Chia Suan Chong considers the importance of rising above one-size-fits-all lessons and suggests five simple ways of tailoring our courses so that they are more relevant to the people we teach.

IATEFL Brighton 2018: Day 1

2016-07-04

Chia Suan Chong summarises the talks she attended and her experiences on her first day at the IATEFL Brighton 2018 annual conference.

Hijacking Pokemon Go for some learning

2016-07-01

Chia Suan Chong assesses the potential learning applications of the latest videogame craze.

The Dangers of Pre-Teaching

2016-06-15

Chia Suan Chong looks at pre-teaching and why we should consider dropping this stage of the receptive skills lesson.

Flipped learning in a flipped classroom

2016-06-06

Chia Suan Chong looks at how we can make our classrooms more practical by flipping the classroom and their learning.

How to identify fake news

2016-05-31

Are our students able to tell the difference between fake and real news? Chia Suan Chong looks at how we can help our students evaluate the news they encounter with a critical eye.

Standing on the shoulders of giants at the ELTons 2016

2016-05-19

Chia Suan Chong looks at the nominations and the winners of this year's British Council ELTons and considers the meaning of innovation in our industry.

What’s Trending? – Using popular internet videos

2016-05-04

In her blog this week, Chia Suan Chong puts viral videos to use in the classroom...

5 (out of 12) ways native speakers can effectively communicate internationally

2016-04-22

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong provides a handful of strategies that native speakers can use to facilitate more effective international communication with non-native speakers.

Ten task types to improve teamwork skills

2016-04-08

How can we make the most out of group work in the classroom and provide our learners with the opportunities to improve their team-working skills? How can the tasks we set improve the way they collaborate? Chia Suan Chong looks at ten different task types that will help get the best out of group work.

What does inclusion mean to me?

2016-04-06

‘Diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ might be buzz words in education but what do they mean and how can we apply them to our classrooms? Drawing on her own experiences of exclusion, Chia Suan Chong considers how we can provide a more inclusive experience for our students and make them feel like they belong.

Embracing change: at IATEFL Birmingham

2016-03-31

In this week's blogpost, Chia Suan Chong reflects on lessons learned from the 50th IATEFL conference, and why English teachers should be embracing change.

5 more reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally

2016-03-18

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong looks at more reasons why native English speakers need to think about the international implications of their communication.

5 reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally

2016-03-01

In the first part of a new series, Chia Suan Chong looks at the concept of 'international English' and considers why native speakers should be speaking it...

Three themes of my IATEFL 2019 conference experience

2016-02-23

The IATEFL conference is a gathering of ELT professionals: teachers, trainers, education managers, school owners, writers, and publishers. Coming together to discuss the current trends and issues in our industry, the IATEFL conference is also a chance to talk to like-minded individuals about our passion and the challenges we face. Chia Suan Chong looks at the three themes that stood out for her at this year’s IATEFL Liverpool conference.