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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.

Scrapbook: interpreting words

Written by teachers for teachers: gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits and pieces about how to interpret words

Views on CLIL from three standpoints

This article assesses CLIL in three very different teaching situations.

CLIL, English teachers and the three dimensions of content

This article discusses the need to demystify CLIL and how important it is for language teachers to understand and support content learning.

The teacher as input

Ken Lackman suggests we put the teacher back into the classroom.

EMI in Turkish Universities

This article discusses the development of EMI in Turkey and some of the issues faced by learners and teachers.

Preparing to teach: concession

John Potts looks at some ways of expressing contrasts.

Five things you always wanted to know about technology and young learners (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 using technology with children.

EMI in Asian universities

This article discusses some of the challenges faced in running EMI programmes.

Over the wall: reviewing books about freedom

Alan Maley wonders how free is free?

Making a Google guide

Pete Clements produces support materials to help teachers use online tools.

The role of the editor in ELT materials development

Karen White and Karen Spiller describe the skills and qualities of a good editor.

Putting CLIL into Practice, OUP 2015

A methodological guide for teachers about the issues involved in transiting from teaching curriculum subjects in the home language to an effective CLIL programme.

English for startups

An article on the need for a new approach to learner needs.