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Thrown in at the deep end and swimming

Dale Coulter describes his own particular approach to teaching business English.

Let’s get real

Bob Dignen describes his own particular vision of authenticity in the Business English world.

The language of meetings: how authentic should we be?

Ian McMaster argues that communicative clarity should be at the heart of what we teach.

Why many students find the academic reading component in IELTS difficult

Sam McCarter continues his series on how to prepare for IELTS.

Coherence and cohesion in IELTS academic writing 1

Rory O’Kane outlines the problems before suggesting his solutions.

Reach for the Skype

Olga Kozar investigates the ins and outs of online teaching.

Resistance may be futile

Brian Coughlan believes that, love them or loathe them, mobile digital devices are here to stay.

Text messages 1

Nick Dall unpacks some key features of text messaging.

Students’ stories 6: The straw millionaire

David Heathfield uses a story from a Japanese student to illustrate the technique of getting students to guess the end of a story and create their own endings.

Five things you always wanted to know about the ‘One laptop per child’ initiative (but were too afraid to 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 discusses the results of an innovative initiative.

Rub it out and start again

Stephanie Hirschman extols the virtues of mini-whiteboards.

Showbie your work!

Martina Dorn painlessly makes her classroom paperless.

The LLL technique

Anna Kamont prioritises the lexical potential of listening tasks in The LLL technique.

Book review – The Business English Teacher

Linda Hanington reviews a  a crash course in ELT principles applied to the business English context

Preparing to teach: present perfect and for/since

John Potts has been taking a good look at a tense that has often proved problematic.