All Article articles – Page 46

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A truly international experience

Karen Richardson, an author and freelance teacher based in Germany, agreed to be a onestopenglish roving reporter at the 41st annual IATEFL conference in Aberdeen.

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Caterpillars, butterflies and yodelling models

Lindsay Clandfield takes time out from talks and parties to give us his impressions of the 41st annual IATEFL conference.

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Reading matters: Genre

In this article, Adrian Tennant explores the issue of text types and includes a number of practical activities.

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Writing matters: Developing fluency

Most teachers have heard of fluency in terms of speaking but what does it mean when applied to writing? In this article we examine the concept of fluency in writing.

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Reading matters: What is reading?

This article takes a look at what we actually mean by reading and whether or not it can be taught or just practised.

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Debate: Are you suffering from burnout?

Lindsay Clandfield looks at the reasons why some teachers experience burnout and makes suggestions for how this can be avoided.

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Listening matters: Tasks for listening

Adrian Tennant looks at common listening issues and provides practical hints and tips for putting students at the centre of listening tasks.

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Writing matters: Getting started

This article takes a look at getting started with writing practice and examines why students often find writing difficult.

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Methodology: Classroom culture

Lindsay Clandfield answers a question on how to create an appropriate classroom culture to encourage learning.

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General: Learners look at learning

This month Jim Scrivener talks about how teachers can encourage their students to become more aware of the learning process.

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Lesson Share: Playschool for grown-ups? Changing the rules of the game in language teaching

Daniel Monaghon asks whether game-playing has a legitimate place in the ELT classroom.

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Business skills bank: Managing international meetings

Sara Helm introduces a new series on meetings skills with an article highlighting some of the challenges faced by participants in multinational and multilingual meetings.

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Speaking matters: Developing fluency

Adrian Tennant presents an article covering various aspects of teaching fluency in speaking, including sections on what is meant by fluency, why students find fluency difficult and the role of the teacher in fluency activities.

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Listening matters: Process listening

Adrian Tennant takes a look at the issues surrounding teaching listening, gives advice on how teachers can help their students and provides some practical ideas for the classroom.

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Lesson Share: Encouraging students to speak

This article by Paul Charles aims to narrow the communicative approach into some practical steps towards successful speaking lessons.

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Listening matters: Top-down and bottom-up listening

Adrian Tennant explores two concepts relating to how students process listening texts – 'top down' and 'bottom up' – and gives some practical ideas for the classroom.

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Speaking matters: Developing and dealing with accuracy

Adrian Tennant presents an article covering what we mean by accuracy and how it can be developed effectively. The article rounds off with some practical ideas for the classroom.

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Speaking matters: Assessing speaking

Adrian Tennant talks about how and when to assess speaking in the classroom, and provides some practical ideas for setting up assessment activities.

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Mixed-ability classes

Alex Case addresses the difficulties faced by teachers whose young learners have very different levels of English.

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IELTS: Describing data-line graphs 1

Some top tips, a lesson plan and a student worksheet about describing data-line graphs to help with the writing component of the IELTS exam.