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Encouraging ‘complexification’

Paul Bress prompts his students to produce more complex sentences.

Using wikis in Content-based Language Teaching

Grant Hartley focuses on using wikis in Content-based Language Teaching.

Crossing borders

Jennifer Schumm Fauster and Elisabeth Poelzleitner describe using young adult literature to promote intercultural competence.

Practical Ideas – Troubled teens

Troubled teensFari Greenaway uses Community Language Learning to break down barriers to effective language learning.

The things people said

Simon Mumford explores using quotations for language teaching.

The word part technique

Wei Zheng and Paul Nation describe a very useful way to teach vocabulary.

Going mobile: teaching with handheld devices

Nicky Hockly explains how you can learn to teach with handheld devices. 

Five things you always wanted to know about mobile learning (but were afraid to ask)

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explores mobile learning, also known as m-learning.

C is for creativity: implementing creativity

An extended article on ‘creativity for change’, which was started by Brian Tomlinson in Issue 92.

ACKTion! Drama techniques for verbal fluency

Melinda Gamlen believes that EAP students who mainly study academic English suffer negative effects from a lack of verbal fluency, and she tackles the problem by using drama techniques.

Descriptive statistics for EFL classroom research

Andrzej Cirocki gives us a simple introduction to quantitive research tools.

Communicative Language Teaching and EAP

Tim Vandenhoek explores the role of CLT in EAP.

Psychology and ELT

Nick Michelioudakis explains the difference between observation and experience.

The implications of ELF for the design of authentic listening materials

Sheila Thorn looks at ways to better understand different accents.

Accentuate the positive; eliminate the negative

Simon Andrewes argues that we should focus on pronunciation problems that lead to a breakdown in communication.
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