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From studying to learning. From classroom to world

David Addyman disccusses the effectiveness of memorising as a learning method

Sport: a powerful topic to generate language work

Alex Miller suggests ideas from his American high-school classroom which could easily transfer to an ELT context.

Noticing: a scaffolding strategy 2

Handoyo Puji Widodo and Andrzej Cirocki suggest some sample activities.

Teaching behind bars

Iain McInally describes the restrictions of teaching in a restricted environment.

Using perspective to analyse and produce texts

Perspective In the last issue of MET I focused on essential elements in academic texts and their interface with critical thinking.

How to Skype up your English classes

Anna Kamont shares her experience of being an online teacher and offers a set of tried and tested online teaching techniques she has developed over the last few years of working in an online environment

Blended learning: where are we?

There is nothing fundamentally new or revolutionary about blended learning. Human beings have been learning through a blend of classroom lessons with a teacher, and classroom and personal study materials, for a very long time says Andrew Wickham.

EAP an all-round challenge: the challenges for students and practitioners

Louis Rogers begins a new series on English for Academic Purposes with a look at the challenges for students and practitioners.

The teacher as saviour?

Mandana Arfa Kaboodvand wonders whether language teachers are supposed to save the world.

Using Automated Speech Recognition in ELT

Michael Carrier looks at ASR: Automated Speech Recognition, which is now becoming useful for ELT.

ELT leadership

Local leaders of ELT programmes talk about what it takes to be a good leader in Turkish education. Meghan Beler

The things people said: part 2

Simon Mumford explores how the words of famous people and anecdotes about well-known events can be used for a variety of language teaching purposes.

The augmented classroom

Practical ideas for how to use augmented reality in EFL. Stephen Pilton

Back in the classroom

After over 20 years away from full-time teaching, the editor got back into the classroom for a three-week course.

IELTS, grammar and linguistic competence

Sam McCarter considers how teachers move from an EFL/ESOL language class where students may be describing situations and events in their personal lives to a class preparing students for the IELTS exam
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