All Professional Development articles – Page 36
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Lesson Share: Methodology: Not too heavy with Cambridge First
Russell Whitehead answers a question on how to engage students more in Cambridge First lessons.
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Vocabulary matters: What do words mean?
This article takes a look at the different aspects of ‘knowing’ a word, starting with a look at some of the things we need to know about a word in order to really understand it and finishing with a few practical activities.
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ArticleThe corpus principle: Introduction to corpora
In this six-part series, Jamie Keddie asks, 'What is a corpus?' and invites us to think about how we might use corpora in the classroom.
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ArticleReading matters: Reading strategies
This article looks at a variety of different strategies and examines why, when and how you might use each of them to develop your students' reading skills.
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Lesson Share: Methodology: Project work
Are you teaching in a summer school this year? Lindsay Clandfield answers a question about the challenges of setting up effective project work and getting young learners interested in it.
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Writing matters: Creative writing
In this article we take a look at what is meant by 'creative writing' and why it can be a useful tool in helping improve our students’ writing skills and overall level of English.
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Writing matters: Developing accuracy
Accuracy in written work is important, but how can we help our students to become accurate writers? In this article, Adrian Tennant tries to answer this question and provides some practical activities that focus on accuracy.
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Methodology: Teaching with video
Have you had some interesting experiences when attempting to integrate video into your lessons? Jamie Keddie answers a question on how to get the most out of film-related resources.
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Methodology: Coherence and cohesion
Can a cohesive text be incoherent? Is coherence subjective? Scott Thornbury takes a look at the difference between coherence and cohesion and suggests some practical ways that we can teach both in an EFL context.
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Word of the week: Mint
Tim Bowen explains the origin and different meanings of this word. It's mint!
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ArticleReading 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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ArticleReading 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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ArticleWriting 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.