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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.

Listening difficulties: going beyond ‘They speak too fast!’

If your students struggle with listening, you might have to consider facing the source of their problems head on: their listening difficulties. Chiara lifts the lid on what the research and students say about the main listening difficulties, and how you can leverage them in your classroom.

Writing an online self-study course – Part 2

Many teachers are pivoting towards making language teaching a business. This includes designing online self-study courses. In the second part of this series, we look at some decisions to make when designing an online self-study course: whether to make it interactive, how to introduce reflection tasks and check learning, and how to pilot the course.

Writing an online self-study course – Part 1

Many teachers are pivoting towards making language teaching a business. This includes designing online self-study courses. In the first article of this two-part series, Chiara Bruzzano looks at why designing a self-study course is a good idea and how to take the first steps.

Upping your (English) game: lessons learnt

What do the words ‘translation’ and ‘translanguaging’ mean to you? Do they have a place in teaching in your view? Read on to discover where they fitted in an English for football course, what type of language was the focus on the course, how teacher and student co-created knowledge, and how a sense of progress was established.

Upping your (English) game

What ways do your learners use their English? How can it enhance their job or education? In the first article of a two-part series, read about an interview with women’s Serie A football coach and his English teacher to understand how the coach learns English to use it in his job and reflect on what you can learn from it.
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