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Using essential elements to uncover meaning in academic texts

Edward de Chazal reveals a new set of elements which help learners understand better.

The best IATEFL ever?

Sugata Mitra's talk may have grabbed the headlines, but there were plenty of other talks to get excited about at IATEFL 2014, says ETp editor Helena Gomm

Emergent language: working with spontaneous language

Danny Norrington-Davies researches the strategies that experienced teachers use when working with emergent language – that produced by students in real-time interactions.

Let’s work together!

An article on how to get students collaborating in communicative activities.

Gender differences in our classrooms

Carin Chesser looks at how gender affects how a child learns – and whether we should respond in some way.

Needs analysis is dead; long live needs analysis!

David Mann can’t decide whether needs analysis is useful or not.

Singular plurals: singular and plural verbs with group nouns

Ken Milgate takes a sporting look at the use of singular and plural verbs with group nouns, examining World Cup commentaries to determine which form to use and why.

Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests

Charles Jannuzi offers advice and examples of multi-choice activities.

Testing times

William Chaves Gomes knows from experience that tests should be fair.

EAP an all-round challenge: seminar skills

Louis Rogers teaches his students seminar skills.

Scrapbook: Indecision

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends on the theme of indecision. Includes photocopiable materials. 

Making ‘halfalogues’ whole: eavesdropping

Hall Houston exploits our natural curiosity when we hear only one side of a conversation to encourage his students to imagine what the other person is saying and write their lines.

Five things you always wanted to know about using technology and special educational needs

In this article, she discusses how technology can support learners with special educational needs (SEN).

Presentation tools

Michael Carrier looks at presentation tools for ELT.

Using multimedia to motivate students

Boutkhil Guemide and Chellali Benachaiba describe a study conducted with English Master's students in Algeria.