Met Editor

This article focuses on a handful of the different types of learner profiles one might encounter in an EFL teenage classroom. It aims to identify each behaviour and its underlying causes, at the same time offering advice on how to deal with it in a practical setting towards a successful outcome.

This article looks at how technology can enhance process writing.

Barbara Muszynska praises the benefits of bilingual education.

This article presents an overview of 21st century skills and shows how they can be developed through story telling.

Jamie Clayton explains how personalising the reading experience for our students by relating the reading texts we use to their interests and experiences can pay dividends.

This article suggests that by using a skill we all have, teachers can get children to become engaged and enthusiastic learners.

This article looks at how special children are as learners and weighs up the implications for assessing them.

Roger Gower, our Reviews Editor, talks about a key section of Modern English Teacher.

Youssef Mezrigui argues that teacher–student relationships hold the key to success.

Tony Penston hammers a nail into the coffin of a popular technique.

This article argues that business English teaching needs some form of professional standardisation if it wants to be taken seriously.

This article looks at Qucklistens, an audio component for developing fluency.

This article makes suggestions for tinkering in two areas of teaching: the general area of questions which are asked to students and the process of teaching writing.

Derek Wong describes how he uses Gimkit as an assessment tool, finding it more versatile, exciting and motivating for his students than other popular apps.

The author of this article shares some thoughts and practical ideas on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), particularly in secondary education and especially focusing on what’s known as ‘hard’ CLIL.