Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons
Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons Have you ever had the feeling that there’s not much left for you to do but watch your student’s rapid growth resulting from his […]
Teaching Adult ESL – Some Tips
Teaching Adult ESL – Some Tips Every teacher has their tips and tricks for dealing with classes, regardless of the level, age or subject. Here are mine based on 20+ […]
Teaching English One to One – Creating Comfort
Teaching English One to One – Creating Comfort In the purely linguistic sense, the notion of creating comfort is pretty much the same in one-to-one and group contexts. It is […]
Elena Matveeva – Phil Wade Interview
Elena Matveeva – Phil Wade Interview Elena Matveeva has been teaching English in Russia since 1998. She has taught English courses at University, given private classes to students of different […]
Composition Writing Skills for the EFL/ESL Classroom
Composition Writing Skills for the EFL/ESL Classroom Nine years ago, I found myself having to rediscover how to teach writing to sophomores and higher level students for the first time […]
ESL Placement Tests – An Analysis
ESL Placement Tests -An Analysis How accurate is the placement test at your school? How do you know? Can the data gathered through the placement test be used in other […]
Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking
Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking this time at Pronunciation. If you haven’t read my previous instalment on Grammatical Range […]
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking
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 […]
Lexical Resource – IELTS Speaking
Lexical Resource IELTS Speaking Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my last article, we looked Fluency and Coherence. If you haven’t […]
Fluency and Coherence – IELTS Speaking
Fluency and Coherence IELTS Speaking In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to the IELTS speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to have […]