Take the CELTA and Launch Your Career
by Mary Catharine Breadner Deciding to become an English Teacher was something that I had thought about and toyed with for many years. Working as a researcher in a busy […]
Teaching Adults Privately
Teacher and learner expectations, and aspects that can make it rewarding by Maroussa Pavli Do you teach languages to adult learners privately? What type of expectations do they have from […]
From Mainstream to ESL Teaching
by Abigail Burrow Moving from mainstream to ESL is not a typical step in teaching. However, when I found myself in Asia on vacation in 2016, I realised how much […]
Why I Wrote ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’
by Ken Paterson Step back a little. Listen to the conversations around you (in any language). You’ll soon be aware of a kind of grammar that adds to, and is […]
My DELTA Diary: Module 2 Intensive Course
by Paul Finnerty I’ve been teaching English for about seven years on and off and have worked in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal and Italy in that time. To be honest, I […]
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started Since the main purpose of any language is to communicate and understand each other, as teachers, we should always pay attention to […]
Empathy, Sympathy or Something Else?
By Rachel Paling As an EFL teacher and a trainer in Neurolanguage Coaching, my senses are acutely switched on to how people react in certain situations, and over the past […]
Micro Teaching in English Language Teaching
Micro Teaching in English Language Teaching Everyone who has already worked for a school which is committed to the development of their students, has been through the terrifying moment of […]
English UK South West Annual Conference
by Sue Fulford A last-minute decision to attend the English UK South West Conference was well worth the early morning defrosting of the car following the first severe frost of […]
Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes
by Elizabeth Bekes Book Review Emma Riordan: Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher 2018, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1_1 “This book examines the spoken language […]