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Enhancing Writing Skills: Effective Strategies for Peer Editing and Revision
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“The secret to good writing is rewriting.” William Zissner, American writerWhen you write something, whether it’s a story or an email, it’s unlikely t...

How to create excellent handouts – 10 tips
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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...

19 ways to challenge yourself as a teacher
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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...

Creating Authentic Assessments
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Every teacher has a go-to approach to evaluating students' progress. Whether it’s through formal testing or taking the time for conversations with...

11 (more) tips to encourage unmotivated students
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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....

Teaching Shakespeare: Bringing the Bard to Life in the English Classroom
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If you’ve ever thought that someone has had ‘too much of a good thing’, or that something is ‘extraordinary’, then you’ve used language first said by ...

Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills through Literary Analysis
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The importance of critical thinking in language educationWhen it comes to learning English, there is an important distinction between descriptive spee...

Building the Foundations of Differentiation: Helping Students to Set Clear Goals
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Most teachers at some point have struggled to cope with the range of abilities and backgrounds of students in a class. Tailoring instructional methods...

Laying the foundation of a successful school year
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As the new school year starts to unfold, both veteran and new teachers will face new challenges (or old ones in different clothes), both in- and outsi...

Teaching English Grammar Effectively: Exploring the Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Grammar Teaching
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IntroductionThe decades-old debate between explicit and implicit grammar teaching is one of the most divisive in language education.Advocates of expli...

Five things students can learn from an English test
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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 classroom
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Technology in the classroomLearning technologies have been essential for teachers and students for decades, if not centuries. In fact, at one point, e...