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David Heathfield has fun with functional language.

David Heathfield finds inspiration in the difference between truth and lies.

David Heathfield gets his students telling tales.

David Heathfield offers some quick-change improvisational roleplays involving strong emotions.

We're giving away this article by David Heathfield, in which he offers activities for hands-free speaking.

Roger van Schaick notes down some ideas for improvisation.

Paul Bress heads towards holism.

Herbert Puchta gets personal.

Ana Lía Passarotto demonstrates the dividends of monolingual dictionaries for trainee teachers.

In recent years, video has become a widely used medium within language teaching. In this article Glenn Gainer reviews the potential benefits for video as well as the challenges faced by the teacher. The article then goes on to introduce a new approach for using silent video in a game format with low-level students.

Alan Maley looks at the qualities teachers need to succeed both personally and professionally in today’s world.

Michael Rundell and Sylviane Granger describe a corpus-driven research project.

Tessa Woodward sees the importance of preparation at all stages of a teacher’s career.

Tessa Woodward looks at the questions teachers ask.

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 explains tags and tagging.