All Article articles – Page 4
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Communication to arrange communication is now normal
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how our ways of communicating have changed over the past few years, as a result of electronic communication.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Confessions from an obsessive language learner: what I have learnt from continually studying languages for 32 years
Russell Stannard details how his own language learning has given him insights into how to better teach his students.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Your workplace’s best friend?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about taking pets into work.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: How to approach essay writing
What different approaches to essay writing are there and how can they help your learners? Academic English specialist and teacher trainer Kerry Boakes explains three different approaches to essay writing and offers practical tips on how they can be used in the classroom.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Helping very young learners improve their collaboration skills
Introducing collaborative tasks in a preschool setting can be daunting. Young learner expert Sarah Hillyard offers her tips and advice for teaching young learners how to collaborate, as well as suggesting activities that can help them learn through collaboration.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Multisensory learning in the inclusive classroom
Maria Byrne, Affiliate Trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) and lead tutor on the NILE Learning Differences and Inclusion course, shares her experience of working with dyslexic teens and suggests some simple, multisensory learning techniques that can help learners with dyslexia in the classroom.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Guilt-free teaching – how your students learn more when you plan less
Teacher and polyglot Katie Harris explains how you can save time and increase student engagement when lesson planning, so that you can lighten your workload without feeling guilty.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Good for business
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about diversity at work.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: The challenges of speaking
Why is speaking a foreign language so difficult, and how can we help our students do it better? Teacher and editor Emma Fox explains why speaking is so challenging and offers a range of activities and techniques you can take straight to the classroom.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: The Fifth Skill – ‘viewing’
Kieran Donaghy, expert in the use of visual arts in language teaching, explains what ’viewing’ is and how you can implement it in the classroom.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Teaching mediation
‘Mediation’ is the latest ELT buzzword. But what exactly is it, and why should you teach it? Thom Kiddle, Director of Norwich Institute for Language Education and Vice Chair of Eaquals, explains all.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Sound design
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about noise in the workplace.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Five strategies to help students cultivate a growth mindset
What is a ‘growth mindset’, and how can it help your students? Teacher trainer and author Chia Suan Chong explains all and offers five strategies you can employ.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Making blended learning useful and effective
Getting the blend right between face-to-face and online learning and technologies can be a challenge. Award-winning educational technologist and teacher trainer Russell Stannard reveals how to approach it for best results.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Does anyone really need to use a dictionary?
Why use a dictionary when you can Google a word? Dictionary expert Michael Rundell answers this question by looking at the strengths of lexical resources today.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Moving towards learning-friendly teaching
What is ‘brain-friendly’ teaching, and how can it help your students advance their learning? Teacher trainer and author Anna Hasper explains all.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The fear of speaking in public
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers tips and practical advice for speaking in public.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: The secrets of using learning routines with young children
What are ‘learning routines’, and why should you use them with your young learner classes? Expert author Carol Read explains all, offering tips and practical advice.
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Was it something I said?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the importance of small talk in the workplace.
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ArticleAdvancing Learning: Gamification
This authoritative report by the President of the Board of Directors of the TESOL International Association, Dr Deborah Healey, examines gamification and its uses in education.