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Becoming a less general teacher

Robert McLarty suggests some skills worth developing if you want to teach more specific English in "Becoming a less general teacher".

Thinking CAP

Jason Anderson describes the importance of context in a best practice teaching model.

Stuck at home? Technical advice on online teaching

Derek Wong gives technical advice and practical tips to teachers who have been forced by Covid 19 to switch from classroom teaching to online teaching for the first time.

RU Tching eEnglish 2?

John Hughes looks at a new type of writing.

Preparing to Teach: Non-finite Constructions

John Potts recommends our focusing on constructions without finite verbs.

Bring on the sheep choir!

Samuel Barbour writes his own songs, poems and plays to make language learning fun and meaningful.

Key questions

Chris Payne suggests practical solutions to surmount examination stumbling blocks.

Dictation diversity

Ana García-Stone shows that dictation has moved on since she was at school with examples of different types of dictation which she has used with her students.

Stop complaining, start creating

Tim Thompson created a course to overcome his frustration with his university’s shop.

Teaching students with ADHD

Fari Greenaway has some advice for a difficult situation.

The business of online teaching: basic advice

Paul Bress offers six pieces of basic advice on teaching business English online whether this takes place during the Covid-19 lockdown or not.

Bridging the technophobe-technophile gap 4

Daniel Monaghan and Tessa Woodward apply their unifying framework to altering a stimulus.

Cognitive Load Theory revisited: avoiding overload

Chris Payne looks at Cognitive Load Theory and examines four effects of working memory overload, together with some possible ways to overcome or avoid it when working with our students.

Not only, but also: international communication

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at teaching students to communicate internationally.

Book review: The Great Globe and All Who It Inherit

Stella Smyth reviews David Kellogg's analysis of how English language learning can be promoted through visual, auditory and kinaesthetic engagement with multicultural written and oral genres.
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