All Professional Development articles – Page 3
-
Article
Digital tool selection: Impact of digital criteria
This lesson idea can be used as a reflection at the end of a project, a term or a year.
-
ArticleIELTS: International English Language Test - a brief overview & exam orientation
A simple breakdown of the exam and what it entails for students.
-
ArticleDigital tool selection: Learner autonomy
This lesson idea looks at how to stimulate autonomy in your classes.
-
Article
Pronunciation matters: Integrating pronunciation into your teaching
In this article, Adrian Tennant looks at when you should teach pronunciation and how you can integrate it into your lesson, with a number of practical ideas and activities given as inspiration.
-
Article
Pronunciation Matters: Prescriptive or descriptive?
The terms prescriptive and descriptive are well known with reference to the teaching of grammar. However, in this article they are used in regards to the teaching of pronunciation. Here, Adrian Tennant looks at a number of issues surrounding the ways in which pronunciation is dealt with in learning materials ...
-
ArticlePronunciation matters: Using the phonemic chart
This article looks at different ways of using the phonemic chart with your students. It presents reasons why it is useful for students to know the phonemic alphabet, and gives a few practical ideas to help teachers use the phonemic chart in their lessons.
-
Article
Pronunciation matters: Sound reasons for teaching pronunciation
Why is it important to teach pronunciation? What are some of the key areas of pronunciation? In this article, Adrian Tennant will be answering these questions as well as giving a few practical ideas to help teachers get started.
-
Article
Digital tool selection: Deepening learning
This lesson idea looks at how to deepen your students’ learning through creativity with content.
-
Article
Digital tool selection: Enable peer assessment
This lesson idea looks at how to encourage and enable peer assessment in your classes.
-
Article
Digital tool selection: Allow variation
This video and lesson idea look at how to allow some variation in your digital class through introducing storytelling.
-
Article
Challenges in ELT: Let's talk about the young learner teacher
Claire Venables, young learner teacher and teacher trainer, presents us with a list of six things we can do to work on our professional development as teachers of children.
-
Article
Digital tool selection: Add something
This lesson idea looks at how to add a wow factor to your classes with a variety of digital tools.
-
Article
Challenges in ELT: The flipped classroom
Ollie Wood, Academic Manager of The London School in Thiene, Italy, explains the flipped classroom and looks at how it can be successfully implemented.
-
Article
Challenges in ELT: Transitioning from teacher to DoS
Director of Studies and Delta-qualified teacher Sean O’Grady addresses the challenges teachers face when moving from the classroom to the office.
-
ArticleApplied linguistics: Research methods for language teaching
Netta Avineri, Assistant Professor of TESOL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, offers a step-by-step guide to conducting research in the language classroom.
-
Article
Applied linguistics: Mobile phones
Leonardo Mercado, the Academic Director of Euroidiomas, discusses whether there is a place for mobile phones in the language classroom.
-
Article
Challenges in ELT: Developing intercultural competence
Cambridge examiner and English teacher Tamara Robledo Carranza looks at how to enhance a sense of identity in an intercultural classroom without losing a sense of community.
-
Article
Challenges in ELT: ELT in the 21st century
Christina Lorimer discusses some of the challenges teachers face in the 21st-century classroom.
-
Article
Aylin Graves
Aylin Graves, author of EAP for the 21st century learner, tells us about winning writing awards, being beyond embarrassment and how she keeps her writing fresh.