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

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

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

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

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 think about our frien...

In this penultimate article about teaching pronunciation, we look at another suprasegmental pronunciation system which works across stretches of speech. Sent...

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

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

There is a trend in language centres to teach ESOL students how to speak ‘properly’, without an ‘accent’. The rise in the number of ‘accent reduction’ progra...

Myth two: Drilling can be used to teach vocabulary and grammar Drilling, or the teacher-led ‘call and response’ activity which anyone who has learnt a second...

Pronunciation is an aspect of ESOL teaching which is often misunderstood. Clearly, pronunciation is an essential feature of students’ language, as it affects...

As a productive language skill, writing is much more than simply putting words on paper. A complex set of linguistic and cognitive processing skills come int...

So much of what we mean is unspoken. The way we use cultural phrases, idioms and metaphor, the tone of voice, facial expression and emotion

Any written text is by definition intended for someone to read. The purpose of written language is to communicate ideas between people

Speaking is central to use of language. Of all the skills we use when we learn, most describe proficiency in another language as speaking it

When we think about teaching the four language skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening, we are really thinking about developing...

Pronunciation is one of the fundamentals of language learning. It is the primary factor in spoken language when it comes to understanding

If you have an initial qualification in TESOL and a couple of years of experience in the classroom, you may be wondering where to go next...

Any job interview can be a stressful experience, and school interviews are no exception. Here are some of the most common questions asked...

This article focuses on the positive aspects of the different sounds that Englishes use: accents, and benefit to ESL language learners