Irina Malinina

The rapid spread of AI in education raises new questions for us teachers. These questions involve methodological, psychological and ethical concerns that our professional community should address. In this article, I will consider some of these challenges. Many educators claim that more writing tasks should be completed in class under teacher supervision to prevent the use of AI. However, this is not always easy to achieve. What does this in-class writing mean for teachers and students? New formats? Collaborative writing? Writing in pairs? Will it entail recreating a home-like atmosphere with sufficient time for solo writing, procrastination and moments of...

The article offers a wide range of practice activities for extensive writing both inside and outside the classroom including flash fiction and loop writing.

For our learners to actively interact they need to work on a wide range of listening sub-skills. The article describes them and suggests ways of practising them.

Irina Malinina offers some advice on how to make global materials more engaging, interesting and motivating for your classes. She adds authentic contexts and people to the materials and encourages students to understand diversity.

Irina Malinina describes some engaging and collaborative assignments she set up for her class encouraging collaboration, creativity and peer assessment.

The article argues that by using more inclusive activities and offering individual encouragement along with concept checking, scaffolding, and using the familiar to teach the unknown, teachers of all subjects could benefit from an ELT approach.

Irina Malinina shows how we can create more meaningful activities for learners which will generate more ideas and activities.

What aspects of a school are of the most interest to owners? Is teacher development worth spending time on? Good lesson plans? How important are Interesting resources?

Irina Malinina describes how she tries to get her learners hooked on books.