Category: Volume 9 Issue 5

School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines, discussion roles, and structured talk tasks.

Over the last few decades, the use of comprehension strategies to help students read has become increasingly popular. Unlike traditional reading skills that support word reading, such as phonemic awareness and vocabulary, comprehension strategies help students become active, self-regulated thinkers about the meanings of texts that they are reading. Skilled readers regularly employ various cognitive… Continue reading Teaching Your Students to Read Like Pros

I asked a dozen teaching colleagues (identified below by their initials) for reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic materials in the classroom. From their comments – many of which were generously long and thoughtful – three main ideas emerged: 1) We need to define the term ‘authentic’ and also include in the… Continue reading Authentic materials in the classroom: the advantages

In the first of a short series of posts, Unlock author Lewis Lansford looks at why we should be using video in the ELT classroom. 1. Video speaks to Generation V Skype was released in 2003 and YouTube followed in 2005. The iPad was unveiled in 2010. Internet usage has increased from 16% of the… Continue reading Six reasons to use video in the ELT classroom

Last month, we hosted Gareth Davies’ webinar, ‘Making the Impossible Possible: How to get your students writing’. During the webinar and on his previous blog post, we called for questions for Gareth that we could ask him post-webinar, to delve deeper into creative writing in the EFL classroom. Here’s the full transcript of this interview: What… Continue reading Making the Impossible Possible – Q&A session

Across the world, an educational trend is becoming increasingly popular. Subjects such as Science, Maths, Geography and Economics are being taught through the medium of English – known as English Medium Instruction, or EMI. My definition of EMI is: “The use of the English language to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries… Continue reading EMI (and CLIL) – a growing global trend