Feedback plays a crucial role in helping us to communicate with others. Every day we nod in agreement, smile, raise our eyebrows, or ask people to rep...
The classic handout is one of teaching’s most used resources. But what makes a good handout? Here, EF’s Marc Kets gives his top 10 tips for taking you...
In education, we often talk about how to challenge our students—but what about ourselves as teachers? In a teaching career, it’s normal to find yourse...
If you’re struggling with ideas to motivate a discouraged student or learner who can’t see the progress they’re making, we’ve got a few tips to share....
Some students and schools believe that the only good teacher is a Native English Speaking Teacher (sometimes referred to as a NEST or Mother Tongue sp...
The importance of critical thinking in language educationWhen it comes to learning English, there is an important distinction between descriptive spee...
Mara Reynoso is a teacher living and working in Mexico. During her career she has gone on several overseas group travel trips with her students. Here,...
Most teachers at some point have struggled to cope with the range of abilities and backgrounds of students in a class. Tailoring instructional methods...
IntroductionThe decades-old debate between explicit and implicit grammar teaching is one of the most divisive in language education.Advocates of expli...
English tests are not an aim in and of themselves, although they’re sometimes treated as if they were. In fact, there’s a lot that English testing sho...
Technology in the classroomLearning technologies have been essential for teachers and students for decades, if not centuries. In fact, at one point, e...
Whether working in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, there’s one thing the teaching community has in common: new semester nerves. And we know how t...
