All Professional Development articles – Page 37

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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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Word of the week: Buff

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a film buff? Or do you fancy your buff next door neighbour? Tim Bowen explains all about this interesting word.

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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.

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Methodology: teaching large classes

Tips and suggestions for teaching large classes.

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Speaking matters: Problem-solving

This article looks at problem-solving activities and what they are like. It covers how to set them up, why it's good to use them, the disadvantages and what you should do after the activity.

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Teaching large classes

Alex Case offers tips and suggestions for teaching (very) large classes.

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Phrase of the week: to face the music

Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to face the music.

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Business English in HR

This article gives an overview of teaching English for human resource professionals. It is linked to a ‘think about’ task on planning a sequence of lessons.

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Grammar: mood and modality 2

Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.

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Grammar: mood and modality 1

Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.

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Inside Teaching

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ELT Manager's Handbook