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Tips for Managing the Young Learner Classroom
How do you think about your young learners?
First things first, try to get into the mind of a child by imagining yourself when you were six years old. Connect to yourself as a young learner. Take a deep breath, close you...
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NOCN-NOCN-NOCN on Heaven’s Door
Sylvia Kar
Since not all ESOL qualifications are equal, we must choose carefully from the wide selection available. A relatively new examination on the ESOL market is the NOCN examination, offering levels B1, B2,C1, C2, from Interm...
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Building confidence in our students
Charlie Ellis
Let’s be honest. Lack of confidence is one of the biggest barriers to language acquisition that we face in our classrooms. And it is not confidence in the language that is the only problem. It is the confidence of the le...
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UNIVERSAL AND DIVERSE
Paul Dummett, June 2014
The issue I want to address in this short essay is the cultural context which frames the content of EFL lessons. It seems to me that in spite of numerous nods to the internationalisation of English and its global context...
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Technology: What can it deliver? What do we need?
A fantastic ad: Watch this ad – just click on the video. It is brilliant, isn’t it? It is simple, straightforward, easy to understand and clearly related to language (Functions: Making Requests). But it is also a...
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Improve your students' Life Skills with Macmillan Education
Dr Spencer Kagan
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Classic Exercises – and why they work
Hanna Kryszewska, Pilgrims Language Courses, UK, and University of Gdańsk, Poland
Study the past if you wish to define the future – Confucius
Teachers are always looking for new ideas to use in class. In this pursuit, they may stop using, and eventually forget about tried and tested activities. It is...
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The birth of a campaign using ELT to promote social awareness
By Katie Quartano
The idea to create a campaign which would use ELT to raise awareness about mobility disability issues had its beginning with an article “A day in the life of a disabled person” published in December 2009 by an Athe...
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Making your Coursebook Come Alive (with or without Technology)
Marisa Constantinides
Making your Coursebook Come Alive (with or without Technology)
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