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Using moral dilemmas to practise speaking

This article looks at using ‘Storydrama’ in ELT and how it can help develop speaking skills.

My ideal ‘English-speaking Self’

This article looks at Ideal Selves theory and shows how it can be adapted into a practical, insightful exercise for class and beyond.

Literacy practice under pressure

Lauren Kelley Gonzalez studies a particular problem from the parents’ perspective.

Homework or no homework?

Enda Scott finds good reasons to change his mind.

Teaching register and genre features

This article offers some ideas for helping learners learn to write.

Listening skills for language teachers

This article explains why it is important for the language teacher to be a good listener.

Kids will be kids

This article reminds us that we should never forget the particular learning characteristics children have.

Book review: Putting CLIL into Practice

Dominic Randall reviews Putting CLIL into Practice, a book for teachers and institutions looking to implement Content and Language Integrated Learning.

A walk through art and technology: a class-based museum

Tien Minh Mai describes how he and his students created a virtual art museum inside their classroom, with descriptions of artworks made accessible through QR codes.

Sentence planning – new information needed

In the first of a series of articles Sam McCarter offers some sound advice on writing as part of exam preparation.

The English world is a stage

This article describes some of the linguistic and psychological benefits of teaching English through drama.

The globalization of English: implications for the language classroom

This article discusses how the growth of the English language and its use by non-native speakers has important impacts on our teaching.

Motivating teenagers is easy – all you need are balls!

This article discusses the advantages of teaching English through something the students love – sport.

The inexact science of adapting authentic reading texts

Materials writer John Hughes suggests some criteria for selecting subject-specific and authentic texts to use with your students and some ways of approaching text adaptation for lower levels.

Making CLIL reading tasks communicative

This article shows ways of encouraging students to engage with the content in texts as well as the language.
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