Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking Welcome back to my IELTS speaking series looking at the speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t read the previous part of this series on […]

Grammar Teaching and The Problem of Terminology

Grammar teaching

Grammar Teaching and The Problem of Terminology “What’s in a word?” Shakespeare once asked. And his answer: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  In other words, […]

Book Review: A Descriptive Grammar of English

A Descriptive Grammar of English

The question of whether to teach grammar prescriptively or descriptively has been much debated in the ELT community. On the one hand, teaching prescriptive grammar, according to a fixed set […]

Teaching Grammar Through Theater

Teaching Grammar Through Theater

Teaching Grammar Through Theater At first glance, teaching grammar and theater might seem at odds. A grammar-focused lesson generally aims to clarify a decontextualized rule such as how to use […]

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 […]

Using First Language In the Classroom

Using First Language In the Classroom

Using First Language in the Classroom When I was first thinking of advertising my services as a young one-to-one teacher I decided to read some advertisements by my colleagues to […]