Rose Senior

Personalisation

Rose Senior discusses giving students the opportunity to share with others aspects of themselves as people, which can be a powerful technique for encouraging oral interaction.

Captivation techniques

Rose Senior focuses on the kinds of techniques that good teachers routinely use to engage student interest at the start of lessons

Competitive games

In this column Rose Senior explains why certain teaching techniques and class management strategies are effective, and identifies specific issues that can assist all language teachers in improving the quality of their teaching.

Large classes

Rose Senior suggests ways in which teachers of classes containing between 40 and 60 students can teach more effectively.

How wrong can you be?

Rose Senior reflects on the students who appear to be the quickest and smartest often do not go as far as the quietly determined students who study in strategic ways to achieve their goals.