Have you ever had your name mispronounced? Have you ever taught a group of students with names that were foreign to you? Have you ever had a student come up to you requesting you call them by a different name? Let’s explore the importance of using names and pick up tips to make all your learners feel valued in class.
It can be very easy to disconnect from the teachers you manage when the pressure is on. Gerhard Erasmus looks at how to utilise relationship building skills to get the best out of your staff through relationship building.
How do you manage your time? Do you feel tasks pressing at the start of the week? Is it the same for your students? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy brings the concept of a time matrix to life using ideas from MET 32.5 and real-life teaching scenarios. It’s well worth watching to help get to grips with effective time management!
Do you ever think back to the way you learnt a foreign language and how it was taught? What about if you are learning one now? Is there anything you can gleam for your own teaching? Read about Chiara Bruzzano’s journey of her own language learning and how she now understands it through the lens of Second Language Acquisition, to see why such language learning can help teaching.
The article describes five activities to help students become aware of and practise articulating difficult sounds. It goes on to describe listening practice for the same sounds.
Despite the difficulties, many benefits of online teaching are now present in everyday practice. Teachers are more aware of individuals, keen to make learning student-centred, more careful with what they say and more routine-based.
The importance of technology to younger people is something which cannot be ignored and should be embraced. This will bring about huge change in the educational world but potentially there will be huge benefits.
Four teachers discuss the pros and cons of machine translation in the contexts of primary and tertiary language classes.
The Kiddie Press Club is designed to allow children to express themselves both orally and in writing and My Journey in Education gives them digital tools to help them progress.
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The award recognises talent, creativity and excellence in Business and ESP in ELT.
Danny Norrington-Davies’ new book, Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons, provides teachers with an alternative approach to teaching grammar. This way of teaching considers how people actually use grammar, and how learners can be helped to understand what the speaker means. In short, it focuses on the use of grammar, rather than a rigid set of rules. We asked Danny to tell us about the benefits of this approach.
English Teaching Professional spoke to Danny Norrington-Davies, a teacher and teacher-trainer working for International House and King’s College London, about teaching grammar to English language learners.