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In praise of team training

Uwe Pohl, Margit Szesztay and Tony Wright insist that collegiality and commitment to professional learning deliver huge dividends.

Are we there yet? Answering parents’ questions

Irish Farley soothes parents’ anxieties about their children’s progress and prospects by answering their questions fully and honestly – sometimes in ways that may surprise them.

All for one, and one for all: helping weaker students catch up

Derek Wong uses the ‘mastery model’, giving stronger students the chance to work on extra activities while he devotes time to further teaching, bringing weaker students up to speed.

Systematic word learning 2: online dictionaries

Charles Jannuzi looks at the online dictionaries that students can use to find examples to complete the word cards he introduced in Issue 120 for recording and studying new words.

Listening: the forgotten skill 2 – overcoming listening barriers

Lesley Lanir uses knowledge and analysis of the different types of barriers to listening comprehension in order to find solutions that will help students to overcome them.

Cooperative learning: principles and practice

Jason Anderson looks at the origins and principles of cooperative learning and considers what it can offer in practice to today’s communicative language teachers.

March 2019 issue out now …

In our main feature, Jason Anderson specifies the advantages of working together

Younger and Younger

Eve Conway shares her revelations of working with different age groups in her article Younger and Younger.

Meeting objectives

Paul Bress discusses setting and realising lesson goals.

Best Practices for Blended Learning by Pete Sharma and Barney Barrett

Paul Carr reviews Best Practices for Blended Learning by Pete Sharma and Barney Barrett.

January 2019 issue is out now …

In our main feature, Lesley Lanir begins a new series in which she identifies the barriers to listening comprehension and explores how we can help students to process spoken language effectively.

Text messages 2

Nick Dall tells us how texting can be taught.

Systematic word learning 1: a template for active word study

Charles Jannuzi gives his students a word card template to record new words, and by using this in class and for homework encourages them to engage in systematic study of vocabulary. 

Promoting reading skills by means of technology

Nicky Hockly answers five questions about how technology can be used to promote reading skills.

Inspiring ideas

Benjamin Moorhouse suggests ways of stimulating creativity by generating things to write about.
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