All Professional Development articles – Page 4
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ArticleApplied linguistics: Empowering language learning through assessment
Director of Assessment and Evaluation, Liying Cheng, and Associate Professor of Language Assessment and Testing, Janna Fox, look at how teachers can make more of assessment in the classroom.
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Challenges in ELT: Teaching students with Specific Learning Difficulties
Varinder Unlu, Academic Director at Bloomsbury International and Coordinator for IATEFL IP & SEN Special Interest Group, offers some insights and advice into teaching students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD).
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Kerry Maxwell
Kerry Maxwell, author of Buzzwords and Language for, tells us about lexicography, swimming in lochs and provides some tips for becoming an ELT author.
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Applied linguistics: Teaching pronunciation
Associate Professor of English, Charles Hall, and Senior English Language Fellow, Christopher Hastings, offer some guidelines for teaching pronunciation.
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ArticleApplied linguistics: Choosing a method
Andy Curtis, series editor of Palgrave’s Applied Linguistics for the Language Classroom book series, looks at how we can involve learners when choosing teaching methods.
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Applied linguistics for the language classroom
Welcome to Applied linguistics for the language classroom.
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Challenges in ELT: Teaching online
Experienced teacher and blogger Cecilia Nobre shares her experiences and top tips for successfully teaching online.
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Teaching creatively: The impact of creativity on teachers
In the third and final article in this series, Chaz Pugliese examines the impact that creativity can have on teachers.
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ArticleTeaching creatively: The impact of creativity on students
In the second article in this series, Chaz Pugliese examines the impact that creativity can have on students.
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Challenges in ELT: English as a Lingua Franca
DELTA-qualified teacher and materials writer Katy Simpson takes a closer look at English as a Lingua Franca.
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Challenges in ELT: Career paths
ELT teacher Vittorio Pelosi looks at career paths in ELT and examines what teachers can do to boost their job prospects.
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ArticleTeaching creatively: What is creativity?
In the first article in this series, Chaz Pugliese explains what creativity is and looks at how we can develop our creativity.
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First steps into …classroom technologies
How do you know which classroom technologies to choose? Daniel Barber and Brian Bennett suggest a framework for assessing what’s right … and what’s just hype.
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First steps into ...student collaboration in and out of the classroom
How can you encourage students to collaborate both in and outside the classroom? Daniel Barber and Brian Bennett suggest building online communities for project work.
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ArticleTeaching Business English: Improving a needs analysis
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the information that teachers can get from a needs analysis.
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Challenges in ELT: Teacher training communities
Emma Pratt, co-founder of ELTCampus, discusses the issues involved in building successful teacher training communities.
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Teaching Business English: Understanding different accents
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to help your students understand different accents in a business context.
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ArticleTeaching Business English: Improving fluency
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the fluency of advanced Business English students.
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Challenges in ELT: The non-native issue
Oxford TEFL Prague teacher trainer Karin Krummenacher tackles ‘Goliath’ - the issue of discrimination against non-native teachers in the ELT profession.
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First steps into ...making digital work for you
There are a plethora of digital tools available to help you manage your classes and the tasks you have to do outside of the classroom. Where do you begin? Daniel Barber provides some tips on making digital work for you.