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William Chaves Gomes views newspapers as a valuable resource.

Maaouia Haj Mabrouk considers whether after-school lessons are a blessing or a curse, in Private tuition

Danny Norrington-Davies’ new book, Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons, provides teachers with an alternative approach to teaching grammar. This way of teaching considers how people actually use grammar, and how learners can be helped to understand what the speaker means. In short, it focuses on the use of grammar, rather than a rigid set of rules. We asked Danny to tell us about the benefits of this approach.

English Teaching Professional spoke to Danny Norrington-Davies, a teacher and teacher-trainer working for International House and King’s College London, about teaching grammar to English language learners.

Douglas Williams considers some activities to help learners with word partnerships in Teaching collocation through dictionaries and corpus-based resources.

Jamie Keddie challenges one of the great myths of language teaching.

Greg Davies considers the challenge of very young learners – and what to do about it.

Nick Baguley brings teacher training sessions to life.

David Tedone creates a ‘community of practice’, in Teaching Negotiations 1.

Five things you always wanted to know about digital literacies (but were afraid to ask)

Danielle Weston reviews Grammar Matrix by Lucy Becker, Carol Frain and Karen Thomas.

Sasha Wajnryb offers some classroom-tested tips to invigorate your lessons.

Tim Thompson reports on an experimental business course he designed in 2007, based on a Donald Trump reality TV show, and discusses both why it worked at the time and its future potential.

Jenna Williams explains how an understanding of Mȧori pedagogy has influenced her teaching.

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 microblogging.