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.

Unexpected twists and turns: giving spontaneous interaction a try

2017-07-10

What do you do when your carefully planned class gets interrupted by students taking the conversation in new and different directions? Chiara Bruzzano reflects on the benefits and drawbacks of relinquishing some control and deviating from the lesson plan to allow for spontaneous student interaction in the classroom.

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 2

2017-03-22

Have you ever thought about running a course focusing exclusively on listening? How could this help students? In this second part of her Authentic Listening series, Chiara explains how she analysed her students’ needs, introduced the course and which activities she started out with.

Is a PhD going to make you a better teacher?

2017-02-09

What is the impact of a doctorate (PhD) in Language Education on a teacher’s practices? Will it make you a better teacher? Chiara Bruzzano discusses what doing a PhD means, the extent to which it improved her teaching but also its possible drawbacks.

To caption or not to caption? Using videos with subtitles for language learning

2016-11-04

In these challenging times, asynchronous learning such as watching clips, TV series and films can help our teaching. This post looks at how foreign language subtitles can help learners, what caveats to consider and how to exploit captioned videos.

Silver linings: the role of language teaching during lockdown

2016-10-03

Online teaching has suddenly become the standard for many teachers around the world, and with it, feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. In this post, Chiara Bruzzano tells the story of how, in the midst of feeling inadequate, she understood that her knowledge and skills as a language teacher actually put her in the ideal position to help others (and herself)… much more than she realised.

Chiara Bruzzano

Unexpected twists and turns: giving spontaneous interaction a try

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 2

Is a PhD going to make you a better teacher?

To caption or not to caption? Using videos with subtitles for language learning

Silver linings: the role of language teaching during lockdown

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