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When Elicitation In The EFL Classroom Works And When It Doesn’t

Elicitation is the term for a range of techniques which teachers use to prompt learners to come up with information rather than giving it to them. More specifically, eliciting can be used to brainstorm a topic or to produce target…

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When teaching Young Learners, you soon realise that it is necessary to constantly do things to keep your learners’ attention. Your lessons need to be filled with colour, texture, sound…

Storytime For Young Learners

8th August 2016

Teaching English as a Foreign Language day in and day out can feel like you’re running on a hamster wheel sometimes. Sometimes you feel like you’re teaching the same lesson…

5 Ways To Spice Up Your Teaching

8th August 2016

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