Articles

In this, the first of two articles for TeachingEnglish, Alan Maley considers the benefits extensive reading can bring to English language learners and teachers.

This is Scott Thornbury's second article for TeachingEnglish.

This is the first of two articles by Scott Thornbury for TeachingEnglish.

This article looks at the role of translation as an activity for learners in the ELT classroom.

If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.

Pre-selecting, grading and presenting business vocabulary - Is this the way forward? 

You may well ask me “How useful is the question in this title?” After all to check what a student has understood after listening to or reading an L2 text seems plain common sense. If it were not felt to be a sensible procedure why would course book writers supply comprehension questions in large quantities?

This is the third in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time.

This is the second in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time.