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In the vast majority of primary and high schools around the world, students are grouped into large classes of 30+ students by age - in each

It happens to the best of us - our best laid lesson plans are ready to go, and something unexpected happens. Unforeseen situations happen

We’ve all had a couple of years to think about where we are and what we’re doing, but 2022 promises to be the year when the world opens up a

Over the past couple of years, many teachers have been adapting to new ways of teaching online - through Zoom and Skype, working with groups

1. Unless you teach English, you don’t really know what it involves. Nobody seems to get what TESOL is - it’s either seen as a middle-

If you are looking for professional development in the English language education field where you work, the Level 6 Trinity Certificate for

Although the ideal for most private language centres is class sizes of below 20, with a range of ages and cultures studying together, the

Any form of education depends on a fundamental element: the gap between what students already know and what they are learning

While teaching a group of students in China, I once used the philosophical ‘trolley problem’ as a stimulus for discussion. The students had

Of all the sentence structures in English, some of the most complex and often-confused are conditionals. These useful but tricky structures

In the language classroom, we hear a lot about the role of practice - students need to show their progress by using the language they are

As in most languages, we can talk about the future in English, but when it comes to teaching the language we use to communicate about the

If you were teaching someone to fold an origami crane for the first time, how would you do this? Would you explain every step at once, using

As we have noted on this blog many times, the majority of language teaching in the world is performed by teachers working in a diverse range

When thinking about how to present language to students at the beginning of a class, we have a choice to make: do we need to introduce the

Go into many language centre classrooms, and you will see a sign on the wall: ‘English only’, or ‘speak English in class’. Students are

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...

Listening in a second language involves a lot more than identifying keywords and answering information questions, so why are most listening

In this final article about teaching writing, we will look at another common essay genre: argument essays. Argumentation operates in

Writing is a complex activity - it involves language, culture, cognition and the management of ideas as they develop onto the page.