Met Editor

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at coaching and what it has to offer to language teachers.

This is my 25th issue of the magazine and a lot has changed in my life and in the teaching world over that period of six years. Obviously the major change for me is that I am now teaching and training in New Zealand and, in so many ways, it is very different to life back in Oxford. More of that later. Another change which is becoming more and more apparent as the years go by is that good teaching resources are being produced by local practitioners and are of immediate use in the local conditions. This is reflected...

Jocelyn Wright draws our attention to the advantages of graph-making.

Martin Bastkowski believes that motion enhances learning.

Derek Wong describes how he gets his students to produce illustrated name badges in order to explore their experiences of learning English and their feelings about it.

Paul Carr keeps his students and colleagues happy with some favourite activities.

William Chaves Gomes shares his experience of and strategies for dealing with difficult adult students whose challenging behaviour threatens to disrupt the class.

David Heathfield uses a Kyrgyz tale about a cunning trickster and a foolish rich man to show how students can be encouraged to retell a story in character.

Is That Clear? Effective communication in a multilingual worldby Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn Alevizos Prepare to Publish 2019 978-1-9162800-0-7With English being widely recognised as the international language of business – though Brexit may have dented, if not entirely put paid to, that idea – a lot of time and effort is expended on helping non-native speakers of English to survive in an English-medium business environment. General business English coursebooks abound, and many ELT publishers also produce ranges of single-issue supplementary texts on the ‘Big Four’ of Meetings, Negotiations, Presentations and Socialising – all geared towards helping non-native speakers to...

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends on the theme of the subconscious Includes photocopiable materials.

Patricia Barzotti describes her experience of teaching group formation theory to psychology students in an Italian university by means of CLIL.

Paul Bress exploits his students’ interest in real-life information and personalises his teaching by using his own experiences to provide language models.

Graham Burton outlines an integrated approach in four stages.

Daniel Monaghan and Tessa Woodward apply their unifying framework to personalising a stimulus.

Clare Hampton reveals lessons she has learnt from playing the online video game World of Warcraft and how she has applied these to her teaching.