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C is for creativity: what creativity means

Jane Arnold and Rod Bolitho discuss what creativity means to them.

Preparing to teach: less, fewer, least and fewest

John Potts believes the fewer mistakes we make, the less time we will have to spend correcting them.

Lesson planning right from the heart

Duncan Foord recommends strategies for preparing and teaching effective lessons.

Business skills 7: cross-cultural communication

Debbie Barton, Jennifer Burkart and Caireen Sever outline how to incorporate aspects of cross-cultural communication into English business skills lessons.

What about a feedback revolution in the writing classroom?

Icy Lee argues for a completely new approach to feedback.

Logic for language learning 2

Simon Mumford turns his attention to variations on traditional exercises.

A Consciousness-Raising (CR) approach to teaching English grammar

Handoyo Puji Widodo emphasizes the need to teach grammar.

Bits and pieces 19-2

The lighter (and newer) side of language

Drawing on drawing games part three

Alex Case gets students involved in drawing competitions, challenges and cooperation.

Do something different with your coursebook: using pictures

Rachael Roberts continues her series on adapting your coursebook to suit your classes. In this article, she looks at using pictures from coursebooks.

Spelling – It’s just a confusion

Lesley Lanir examines why some learners have problems with spelling.

Pulling it together

Nick Baguley and Erica Dirou outline an integrated approach to course planning on teacher training programmes.

An English language curriculum project in Timor-Leste

Roger Barnard, Jenny Field and James McLellan describe a project to revise the language teacher development program in East Timor.

Learner-centredness and reading aloud

Tony Penston puts the case for more reading aloud.

Distinctions & dichotomies: elementary and intermediate

Distinctions & Dichotomies explores pairs of linguistic and pedagogic terms. Roger Gower considers the labels we attach to learners.