CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers

CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers ESL teaching is such a deep ocean that every time you plunge into it, you come out possessing something new. That possession could totally be […]

ESL Critical Thinking Activities for Gen Z

Critical thinking ESL

ESL Critical Thinking Activities for Gen Z Generation Z, born in the period from 1995 to 2010, succeeding the Millennials, is currently within the educational process or has just started […]

Meditate Your Way to English

Meditate Your Way to English

A long time ago I realised that empowering my students is my mission. I use various resources to achieve this: inspirational stories, videos, poems, and songs, to name but a […]

Songs to Teach English – The Beatles

Songs to teach English

Songs to Teach English – The Beatles Recent surveys, such as Kaplan (2013) , have shown that, in the ELT classroom, music is the most popularly used form of all media types […]

Socratic Discussion for ESL Classes

Socratic discussion

Socratic Discussion for ESL Classes Students love to talk. It’s usually a classroom occurrence that a teacher wants to curb but there are times when talking in the classroom can […]

Language Coaching in the 21st Century

Language Coaching in the 21st Century

Language Coaching in the 21st Century This article aims to provide an overview of language coaching today and clarify its role in EFL. There is a buzz in the EFL […]

A Paradigm-Shift in English Teaching in Pakistan

A Paradigm-Shift in English Teaching in Pakistan

Teacher friendly English classrooms by Irum Butt Most Pakistani English language classrooms (PELCs) use the traditional lecture method (Waseem, 2009), or teacherexplanation along with the whole-class teaching strategies. Though, the […]

Pedagogy of The Oppressed: A Book Review

Pedagogy of the oppressed

Pedagogy of The Oppressed: A Book Review 2016 was the year of social justice. IATEFL showcased a talk by J.J. Wilson promoting the work of famed Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire. […]