Jim Fuller

When I think of a language teaching organisation (LTO), I think of a garden – one in which all of its individual staff and members have been ‘planted’ carefully, and are being nurtured so that they can all reach their true potential, alongside the growth and success of the LTO. But why a garden? This metaphor might seem strange to many of you – especially when there are numerous conceptions of organisations already present in the literature, and many of these being quite useful. Nonetheless, I feel that many models within the literature fail to capture the essence of...

The article covers some key aspects of TBLT with young learners – use of mother tongue, input and output tasks, clarity, engagement, modelling of both tasl and language and repetition.

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