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In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explores a popular new way of exchanging information.

Nasy Inthisone Pfanner prompts her students to make renewed efforts with formal letters.

Louis Rogers puts business English in the blender.

Tessa Woodward learns from a new kind of professional development.

Beth Davies reviews the case for flexibility and anticipation in lesson planning.

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explores BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

The aim of this book is to provide a tool for the self-study, with students learning vocabulary for both production and recognition.

Alan Maley reflects on what it means to be a reader.

IELTS Expert 7.5 is an exhaustively complete package, which aims to take IELTS students from a respectable 6.0 level (top end of B2) to 7.5 (top end of C1).

Jason Anderson focuses on how to plan and carry out activities in the classroom. He offers an activity cycle diagram to help teachers conduct activities more efficiently.

Understanding Teenage Language Learners Onlineby Chris Roland Pavilion ELT 2021 978-1-91401-033-0Online teaching has been around as a possible or additional way of delivering lessons in global education systems for some time now. However, with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ability to teach online has become an essential skill and is, in fact, now a requirement in many, if not most, job descriptions for English language teachers.Adolescents have always been a rewarding, yet tricky, age group to work with face-to-face – and this is even more the case in online teaching. Teachers around the world who have had...

In this article, Nicky Hockly looks at online social networking and how it might be relevant to language teaching.   

Paul Bress delights in having overseas teachers as his students.

Adrian Tennant argues that the way in which differentiation is implemented in class can make a mixed-ability class even more mixed by widening the gap between learners. He thinks that the answer is to create an inclusive classroom which doesn’t ignore differences between learners, but doesn’t make a big deal out of them either.

Nicholas Northall supports his students’ classroom reading with extra help from the internet.