As we mo ve forward into the ‘new normal’ of Covid restrictions and the post-covid educational paradigm, blended and online learning will...

The emerging post-Covid world is bringing about changes in the global education industry, with TESOL and English language provision chang...

The phrase is on the tip of everyone’s tongue - the new normal - it’s coming, but what does it mean? In order to define where we will be ...

Part 2 - Online TEFL courses: Do they do what you need them to do? If you are looking for an English teaching qualification, but don’t kn...

Part 1: Accreditation and external assessment If you are looking for an English teaching qualification, but don’t know where to turn, you...

If you are an English teacher whose first language is (shock, horror!) not English, you will probably have experienced some kind of discr...

More and more of us are working online, and the Internet is overflowing with questions from teachers about the best ways of doing this, a...

If, like so many other teachers in the world, you are making the jump to online delivery during these challenging times, you will have ha...

If you are an English-medium teacher working in a school, international university or IB / GCSE programme, your classroom is your own e...

Everyone does it (yes, even you…) - we have a class to prepare for 30 students, and ten minutes of our lunch break left to copy a workshe...

Online learning has been the fastest growing sector of the education industry for some time now, and recent events have pushed more and m...

In light of recent revelations about video conferencing platforms, it is more important than ever that online educators pay due diligence...

The Trinity College London Level 6 Certificate for Practising Teachers If you have been following my recent articles and blogs, you will ...

The global English language teaching industry has developed hugely in the past decade, with the quality of provision rising fast in a wid...

In the wake of lockdowns, school and university closures, and international students returning to their countries to be with their famili...

- Advice for teachers working online under Coronavirus school closures I read this article this morning, from a teacher in quarantine in ...

A message from an international family This is a personal one. Yes, we're living in interesting times, but can we just take a moment to t...

In this penultimate article about teaching pronunciation, we look at another suprasegmental pronunciation system which works across stret...

In the next three articles in this series about pronunciation teaching, we will look at a tricky area of phonology which is often overloo...

This article aims to show why the use of IPA is an essential tool for teaching and learning pronunciation, and that it is worth the effort