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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.

Is technology helping? The benefits of technology in task-based language teaching

We’ve all been using technology to teach and we’ve realised it has many drawbacks, but have we considered how it may be helping our learners? Chiara Bruzzano considers research on the benefits of integrating Task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology.

What can a dance fitness class teach us about ELT?

Reflective practice for teachers comes in many forms and in the most unexpected places: this post discusses how the experience of attending a dance fitness class helped Chiara put herself in her learners’ shoes in the classroom and how all of this applies to her teaching.

Why we should explore and evaluate teachers’ beliefs

In this week’s blog, Chiara Bruzzano explores English language teachers’ beliefs, where they come from, what impact they may have on classroom practices, how they may clash with learners’ beliefs and how to harness this knowledge to evolve in our teaching.

The potential of extensive reading

Reading for enjoyment: does it work? Does it help language learning, or does it make students dislike reading even more? What could help you incorporate Extensive Reading (ER) in class and why should you even bother? This blog post reveals all!

Let’s look at some common misconceptions in language teaching!

Who’s heard people say ‘students need a textbook to learn’, ‘native speakers teachers should teach pronunciation’ or perhaps ‘encourage your learners to think in the L2’? Too often such misconceptions like these can quickly be set in stone, but how should we really respond to them? We look at the way such myths can be dealt with to see.
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