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English Teaching Trends
Teaching methods: An introduction to TBLT

TBLT stands for Task-Based Language Teaching. It’s an educational framework for the theory and practice of teaching second or foreign...
By Nicole Kyriacou

April 23, 2018
260 45156
21st century skills
IATEFL: Introducing Clare Walsh – helping teens to bridge the cognitive gap

Mind the gap – Three tips to promoting communicative competence in teen and young adult classes. If you ask a...
By Richard Cleeve

March 16, 2018
14 5149
21st century skills
The importance of authentic English

In this interesting webinar, Philip Warwick goes into detail about what authentic materials are, why they are important and how...
By Anna Roslaniec

March 14, 2018
16 11269
Adult Learners
IATEFL: Introducing Antonia Clare and the Intermediate B1 Plateau

This learning plateau typically occurs after the rapid progression students often experience as beginners. When they reach B1 or intermediate...
By Richard Cleeve

March 12, 2018
12 5229
21st century skills
The benefits of digital tools in the Primary classroom

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the TV show Star Trek - I liked a lot of...
By Christopher Sol Cruz

February 8, 2018
17 22342
English Teaching Trends
5 of the most popular posts of 2017

We would like to highlight some of the most popular articles from this year, written for both English teachers and...
By Gemma Considine

December 29, 2017
14 15735
English Learning Hints & Tips
Forward-looking Reflective Teaching

The practice of reflective teaching is important to teachers and especially language teachers, for it is one of the few...
By Ehsan Gorji

December 21, 2017
41 11113
English Teaching Trends
What does the rise of the robots mean for education?

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Pearson CEO John Fallon discussed the prospect of robots taking people’s jobs, a...
By Sue Alderman

December 5, 2017
12 6046
English Learning Hints & Tips
5 ways to use WhatsApp in the ELT classroom

How the instant messaging app can be an effective language learning tool. In our recent post looking at the hottest...
By Sue Alderman

November 7, 2017
317 47769
Blended Teaching
6 of the hottest topics from the 2017 ELT Teacher Awards

After the results of Pearson’s 2017 ELT Teacher Awards came in, we decided to analyse the different entries with the...
By Sue Alderman

October 13, 2017
144 41245

English Teaching Trends

TBLT stands for Task-Based Language Teaching. It’s an educational framework for the theory and practice of teaching second or foreign...

Mind the gap – Three tips to promoting communicative competence in teen and young adult classes. If you ask a...

In this interesting webinar, Philip Warwick goes into detail about what authentic materials are, why they are important and how...

This learning plateau typically occurs after the rapid progression students often experience as beginners. When they reach B1 or intermediate...

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the TV show Star Trek - I liked a lot of...

We would like to highlight some of the most popular articles from this year, written for both English teachers and...

The practice of reflective teaching is important to teachers and especially language teachers, for it is one of the few...

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Pearson CEO John Fallon discussed the prospect of robots taking people’s jobs, a...

How the instant messaging app can be an effective language learning tool. In our recent post looking at the hottest...

After the results of Pearson’s 2017 ELT Teacher Awards came in, we decided to analyse the different entries with the...