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Learner training is about developing students' awareness of how they learn. It aims to develop students' learning strategies with the intention of making learners more effective and independent.

There are several ways to approach writing in the classroom. It should be said at the beginning that there is not necessarily any 'right' or 'best' way to teach writing skills.

In recent years a debate has developed over which approaches to structuring and planning and implementing lessons are more effective. This article presents an overview of a task-based learning approach (TBL) and highlights its advantages over the more traditional Present, Practice, Produce (PPP) approach.

This article presents ideas on how to help your students remember vocabulary.

This article looks at what needs to be taught when teaching vocabulary and ways to present and teach vocabulary.

Hopefully if we start educating learners from a young age they will be more comfortable with phonemic script and see the benefits of it when they are older and more self-aware learners.

This article gives an overview of the topic of collocation in English language teaching and shows how this is a key area of study for advanced level students.

In this article I would like to focus on two key areas of developing our students' listening skills.

As mentioned in Error Correction 1, students can differ greatly in their attitude to producing spoken English. Some are only interested in developing their fluency at the expense of accuracy while others are so focused on accuracy that they have no fluency.