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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
The importance of critical thinking in language educationWhen it comes to learning English, there is an important distinction between descriptive spee...
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...
