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The layout of your classroom can have a serious impact on the way you teach and the way your students learn. This article looks at some of the basic points that you can consider regarding the way you arrange your classroom.

We have seen so far how we can organise our classroom work to incorporate the four features of creativity and how we can add the essential element of creative thinking, transition between two ways of thinking to our language learning activities.

The development of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) brought with it a methodology which emphasised communication in the classroom, pair and group activities and student involvement in the learning process.

Most teachers at some time in their career have to teach one to one classes. They find a very different, challenging and special learning context, with unique possibilities and unique problems.

Most teachers have experienced classes in which student interaction has been more limited than they would like, with students becoming reticent when asked to 'talk to your partner about..'.

When checking the answers to an exercise or activity teachers often revert to a more traditional role, whereby from the front of the room they ask students for their answers and tell them whether they are right.

Monitoring is a classroom management technique loosely defined as listening to the learners for their accuracy and fluency, or checking to see whether activities are going to plan and that the learners are 'on task'.

In a standard language focus lesson following a PPP (present, practise, produce) or similar format, the target language (structure or vocabulary) is normally presented in context, then isolated and analysed.

Listening can be a challenge for teenagers, but there are reasons behind this and steps we can take to help.