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Teacher interview series: Is a career in teacher-training for you?
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The education sector has many pathways for teachers. Here, we invited teacher-trainer Anne de Leon to talk to us about her work, and give advice to te...

Academics answer: What is blended learning?
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Education is constantly evolving, introducing teachers to new or different techniques to employ in class. Here, we invited the EF academic team to tal...

Got an unmotivated student? Try these 12 tips
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No matter how cohesive the class, there’s usually one student who just isn’t, let’s say, feeling it. But what can you do with an unmotivated student? ...

David Bish breaks down blended learning
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We sat down with EF senior academic David Bish to find out more about blended learning and how it’s used in the classroom.David, how would you introdu...

Four ideas for project work in the language classroom
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Projects take students’ noses out of their workbooks and help them foster writing, speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and researching ...

What we stand to learn from the world’s largest English test
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Each year, the results from the EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) are published as a benchmark for measuring, tracking, and ranking adult English ...

Best practices when using technology in class
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Sometimes using technology in your classroom can be a little intimidating.  As the rapidly evolving world of technology becomes accessible to more and...

Academics answer: What is task-based learning?
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Education is constantly evolving and introducing teachers to new or different techniques to employ in class. Here, Giorgio Iemmolo explains one of the...

Top five podcasts to learn English with
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Living in the digital age has quite a few perks – especially when it comes to language learning. For instance, gone are the days when heavy textbooks ...

Top tech activities (that don’t need the internet!)
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Have you ever had a wonderful lesson planned using technology and the tech has failed?  Maybe you had to sub a class at the last moment and you needed...

6 ways to use video (that don’t require much prep)
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Just a few short years ago, language teachers would have fallen over backwards at today’s easy access to videos. *Cue applause for the internet*Yet, v...

Your quick cheat-sheet of pair work activities
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Pair work is a much-loved, much-used teaching technique—and with good reason. It reduces teacher talk time, lets students working with a variety of cl...