Irina Malinina

Irina is a teacher of English who has been in the ELT field for 25 years. She teaches a course on special educational needs to pre-service and in-service teachers of English. She holds a Cambridge DELTA and is currently a PhD student at the Russian Academy of Education.

The write stuff

2024-05-10

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

Listening skills as a key part of effective communication

2023-11-22

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.

The wide, wide world

2023-01-16

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.

Assessing university students: the school of hard knocks

2022-09-27

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

Inclusion and teaching English

2022-01-27

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

The write stuff

Listening skills as a key part of effective communication

The wide, wide world

Assessing university students: the school of hard knocks

Inclusion and teaching English

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