Teaching in Low Resource Classrooms – Voices of Experience
Book Review: Edited by Richard Smith, Amol Padwad and Deborah Bullock produced by the British Council. This review written by Lina Gordyshevkaya won first prize in a competition for best […]
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises Phrasal verbs are often confusing for students, due to their idiomatic nature. Unfortunately, there is no quick formula for students to learn and understand them. There […]
Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them
Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works […]
How to Teach Collocations
How to Teach Collocations When I was invited to write the article for this magazine, I thought it would be a great opportunity to offer some of the experience I […]
TH Sounds in English – What Does the Future Hold?
TH Sounds in English – What Does the Future Hold? The TH-sounds /θ/ and /ð/ (dental fricatives) can be challenging for English language learners to master if their native language […]
How to Use Poems in EFL Teaching
How to Use Poems in EFL Teaching This is an example of how to use a popular poem to engage students and improve pronunciation using old-fashioned but effective drilling. Benefits […]
Concept Checking Questions – Yes or No?
Concept Checking Questions – Yes or No? Who calls for greater adherence to the principles of Communicative Language Teaching I wish to show that the Yes/No Concept Question, by the […]
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No L1 Articles occur more frequently than any other word in the English language (“Word Frequency Data”). Unfortunately, however, they remain a persistent […]
The Lexical Approach – A Beginners’ Guide
The Lexical Approach – A beginners Guide The term “teaching lexically” was coined by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley, coursebook writers (Innovations, Outcomes) and teacher trainers (LexicalLab), who have proudly taken over from the […]
Teaching IELTS Speaking: Tips and Tricks
Teaching IELTS Speaking: Tips and Tricks Recently, IELTS has become one of the major language tests worldwide. As a result, markets have appeared, both virtually and in the physical world, […]