The more we get to know our students, the more we see how truly diverse our classroom is. Even in homogenous contexts, we find differences in attitude...
Once language learners progress beyond the basics of English, they start to get a lot more creative, expressing a wider range of thoughts, feelings an...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IntroductionThe decades-old debate between explicit and implicit grammar teaching is one of the most divisive in language education.Advocates of expli...
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...
