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Helena Gomm

After leaving university, Helena Gomm, editor of English Teaching professional, started her teaching career in Japan where she worked for six years, teaching first in a high school and then in a junior college in Nagasaki. Helena has also taught English in the UK. She worked as an editor and publisher for Longman for several years and is now a freelance editor and writer of ELT materials, along with the odd (sometimes very odd!) pantomime for her local theatre group. She has written several titles for Longman, Macmillan, Langenscheidt and Orient Blackswan. She took over from Susan Norman as editor of English Teaching Professional in 2001.

July 2020 issue is out now …

By the time you receive this issue, teachers in some countries may be starting to return to the classroom, but many others will still be required to teach online. The articles chosen for this issue reflect this duality and concentrate less on how to set up your online classes, and more on what to do with the students once you are firmly established in your virtual classroom.

Ave atque vale: Hail and farewell

Helena Gomm looks at changes and trends in ELT publishing and materials development over her 21 years as editor of ETp, including some which give cause for concern.

Editorial (1)

In the world of ELT, when we talk of skills we are generally referring to the four skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Even more narrowly, we often divide these into the so-called productive skills (writing and speaking) versus the receptive skills (reading and listening) – however unsatisfactory that separation might seem to be. In reality, these skills are rarely separate, and each can be seen to support the others in some way; yet they are often tested separately, with the result that they are frequently taught separately, too.This issue of ETp considers all four skills, plus a...

Editorial (2)

Many of the articles in this issue are concerned with our students – and that is, perhaps, understandable: without students, teachers would be out of a job. But what does it mean to ‘cherish’ our students, to go beyond regarding them merely as vessels to be filled with knowledge, or a necessary, if sometimes irritating, feature of our chosen careers?In our main feature, Glenda Demes da Cruz argues that to become a great teacher one needs to put the students centre stage: to address their many and varied needs, celebrate their differences, as well as their similarities, and to...

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