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Chiara Bruzzano

Chiara Bruzzano (BA, MA, DELTA M1, PhD) is an experienced EFL teacher, teacher trainer and instructional designer. She started blogging for English Teaching professional back in December 2019, and is now blogging for the new look Modern English Teacher following its launch in January 2022 where she continues to write about teaching and teaching training issues, impacts of research on teaching/teacher training and a lot more besides. Chiara teaches at the University of Milan, the University of Leeds and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She also designs and delivers teacher education programmes and is the founder of LanguagEd, a professional development company. Chiara holds a doctorate in language education and her interests include listening pedagogy, teacher and learner cognition and migration. She is currently conducting research funded by the British Council on the consequential validity of IELTS.

Five lessons I have learned from writing materials

Many teachers want to make the transition from teaching to materials writing. Recently, Chiara Bruzzano was asked to co-write a textbook: read her latest post to find out about the five main lessons she has learned from her experience.

Authentic but engaging or graded… but dull? Silent videos: the third way

As language teachers, we are often faced with a dilemma: should we choose materials that are authentic but challenging for students, or graded materials that are unengaging? Chiara Bruzzano suggests that the answer may be an unorthodox one: doing away with words in the input by choosing silent videos.

Now I get it!

Do you ever think back to the way you learnt a foreign language and how it was taught? What about if you are learning one now? Is there anything you can gleam for your own teaching? Read about Chiara Bruzzano’s journey of her own language learning and how she now understands it through the lens of Second Language Acquisition, to see why such language learning can help teaching.

Keeping up with CPD over the holidays

As many teachers around the world start their summer holidays, what are some ways to keep up with professional development over the ‘break’? Can we unwind and learn at the same time? Chiara looks at five easy ways to do this: from podcasts to journals like MET, YouTube channels and reflective practice.

English as a Medium of Instruction: all that glitters may not be gold

How much does EMI feature in your teaching? Do you know much about the present and the future of EMI around the world? And why should it matter? Read on to find out more from recent British Council and the European Commission reports and learn about the challenges of CLIL in schools and EMI in universities.
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