Christopher Walker

In my previous article, I looked at recruitment from the perspective of a director of studies (DoS). Hopefully you got the job you were after – which means you now ought to give some consideration to the relationship you want to build with your new DoS. It goes without saying that you will want to teach to the best of your ability – and so I won’t say anything about that. I’ll instead be looking at some of the other aspects involved in the relationship between teacher and DoS, my hope being that by telling you about these problem areas,...

Discover an example of a good writing lesson that builds from speaking, emphasizing process and editing for effective student learning. It is not difficult to teach a good writing lesson, but before you go into the classroom to teach one, it’s worth considering what we mean by the expression ‘writing lesson’. For some, a writing lesson is a quiet lesson in which the students spend the duration pushing their pencils across the page, forcing out three hundred words in something approximating an essay or an article. But is that a writing lesson – or a writing test masquerading as a...

Applying for a position and interviewing for it are two key stages in a career. The article offers insightful advice.

The author has been using this app for over three years and has drawn some useful conclusions about personalisation, recapping, gamification and explanation.

Start the year with some wellness and new year activities which have all worked for MET readers.

The teaching of grammar has become too complicated according to the author. He describes a key aspect of grammar students could benefit from learning.

Christopher Walker argues that pairing of the two oral/aural skills -listening and speaking – provides a more natural input/output context than most coursebooks offer where spoken grammar is often extracted from written texts

What are the main differences between CLIL and ESP? How much knowledge of the subject does an English teacher need? Are they both forms of language teaching?

Which language is easiest, Polish, Greek or Spanish? How do you stay motivated? How helpful is gamification for language learning? Read more to find out.

As a teacher-trainer it can be useful to have metaphors to help explain various parts of the teachers’ role and the article offers a number of options.