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Motivating teenagers: can coursebooks really engage adolescent learners?

Charlotte Rance offers some tips on choosing and using coursebooks with teenagers.

English teaching pronunciation: the business English learner

Difficult to teach? Difficult to learn? John Hughes looks at those learning business English.

Making the most of film

This article looks at the resources available, and how to make the best use of them.

Whose B2 is it anyway?

Alastair Lane discusses some of the challenges of teaching only vocabulary appropriate to the level of the class in Whose B2 is it anyway?

Principled, gamified and effective

Jamie Clayton proposes an alternative system for classroom management.

Book Review: ‘From Rules to Reasons’ by Danny Norrington-Davies

Jason Anderson reviews Danny Norrington-Davies' alternative approach to teaching grammar in the language classroom.

Warming up your cold-calling feet

This article aims to help you get a foot in the door when selling your services.

Errors under the spotlight

Pete Clements examines learner uptake of correction techniques.

A new vision of revision

Nestor Kiourtzidis and Tim Chase say that spaced-repetition tools are the name of the game.

Teaching teens: challenges and rewards

Kat Robb describes what she gets out of teaching this particular age group, in Teaching teens: challenges and rewards

Stories of Survival

David Dodgson describes a game-based experience with teenage language learners in Stories of Survival.

Having a ball

Graham Skerritt and his students throw themselves into language learning.

Learning coach: why are we so wrapped up in teaching?

Daniel Barber and Duncan Foord advocate shifting the focus in the classroom away from teaching towards greater learner independence. In the first article of a series on learner coaching, they ask: Why are we so wrapped up in teaching? Shouldn’t we be more concerned with learning?

Storytime for the very young

Chris Roland sits on his square.

Teaching teens teaching teens

Chris Roland turns his students into teachers in teaching teens teaching teens
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