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.

Where are all the women? Gender representation in ELT materials

2015-10-20

How are women and men represented in ELT textbooks and what are the implications of this? Chiara Bruzzano discusses the evidence around the imbalance in gender representation in textbooks and looks at practical ways to address it in the classroom.

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 1

2015-09-02

Have you ever thought about designing a course focusing exclusively on listening? In this first article of her new series, Chiara Bruzzano discusses why she decided to design an ‘authentic listening’ course, why learners need it and how the course differs from other approaches.

Should I stick to the plan? Emergent language and focus on form

2015-05-29

Teachers may wonder how much time they should devote to emergent language as opposed to sticking to the lesson plan. In this week’s blog, Chiara Bruzzano explores Focus on Form, an option for dealing with student-produced language with strong foundations in SLA research.

Why I teach my students how languages are learned

2012-09-19

Is it useful for our students to learn about language learning? In this week’s blog post, Chiara Bruzzano discusses what it means to teach students how languages are learned, gives ideas for how this can be done in practice and lists the eight reasons why students may benefit from this.

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 3

2012-08-31

How do you design an Authentic Listening course? What kind of guiding principles should you use to compile your course, and why? In the final part of her Authentic Listening series, Chiara shares the answers to these questions and much more besides!

Chiara Bruzzano

Where are all the women? Gender representation in ELT materials

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 1

Should I stick to the plan? Emergent language and focus on form

Why I teach my students how languages are learned

Designing and conducting an Authentic Listening course – Part 3

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