Teaching Tips

Help Students Water their Own Plants
Tara Benwell
Teach students to survive language learning by being active participants.

Marketing Your Language Program 101
Sarah Elaine Eaton
The basics to successful promotion of your courses

20 Presentation Tips for Your ESL Students
Josef Essberger
For some of your students, the ability to give a good presentation in English may be mandatory for their jobs. Here are twenty tips to help ensure a successful presentation, from beginning to end

Review of WORD UP – an ESL Board Game
Alex Case
The biggest hit in our school this year

The Cultural Dynamics of Teaching
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
We briefly examine the cultural dynamics of teaching, which should take into consideration the needs of all students

SAC Shock!!
Alex Case
Tips for self access centres

Should ESL Instructors Speak Other Languages in the Classroom?
Eric Dondero R.
Or should other languages be completely banned from the classroom?

Motivation and Motivating in EFL
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
In this paper, we will briefly examine a variety of techniques, strategies and macrostrategies which teachers can employ in order to motivate their students

Cutting Out Cutting Up
Alex Case
Tips for lesson plans

History of English Language Teaching
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
The changing winds and shifting sands in the history of ELT

Ingredients for Successful Communicative Tasks
Steven Tait
Most of us recognize that communicative activities are great opportunities for learning. But what goes in to making a communicative activity a success?

Notes on Using Video in the Language Classroom
Josef Essberger
These notes are intended to help you think about how you can use video in your classroom

English Speaking Practice through Presentations
Josef Essberger
Like most teachers, you’re probably constantly looking for ways to encourage your students to practise their oral English. This month, we’re going to consider the value of the ‘presentation’ in achieving this

Coursebook: Take it or Leave it
Editor
We do not have to dispense with the textbook. We only have to disabuse ourselves of the tendency to take a coursebook as gospel

NLP and Lazy Language Learning
Diana Beaver
Here are some thoughts that I hope will make life simpler for language learners

Accommodation Theory
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
How we accommodate to others by adjusting our communicational behaviour to the requisite roles that participants are assigned in a given context

An Introduction to “Befogging” Idioms
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
Do idioms really call the shots?

Language and Sex
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
Why can’t a woman be more like a man?

Classroom: Forum or Arena?
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
The present study will focus on teachers’ and learners’ roles, while providing a description of the current “state of the art,” as regards the difficulties and problems encountered

Intellect or Affect?
Dimitrios Thanasoulas
Intellect or affect? one may ask. Certainly both. We should not view them as two forces vying with each other, but as the ends of a continuum that is called self-awareness and spiritual elevation