The TEFL Academy Blog

As teachers, we put a lot of time and effort into planning our lessons and dealing with assessment. Many people don’t realise that most of the work of being a…

New English File. Cutting Edge. Total English. SpeakOut. Touchstone. Inside Out. Outcomes. These are just a few of the popular coursebooks in English language training. In our English as a…

Co-operative learning is a technique which has been around since the 1930s but has recently seen an upsurge in popularity. It came about as a response to the fact that…

We’re English teachers and we’re expected to know our stuff when it comes to the language. Of course, there may be finer points of grammar which we are not totally…

The TEFL world is full of acronyms. You’ve probably heard about EAP (English for Academic Purposes), CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), but you…

Even though it may sound like and seem like a similar job, being a Teach English as a Foreign Language teacher is very different to teaching in a mainstream situation.…

Let’s be honest, Brexit caused quite a stir last year. It got a lot of people hot under the collar, including TEFL teachers who were worried about their employment rights,…

If you’re ever around children, you’ll know that they are really just little people with sponge-like tendencies, especially when it comes to languages. Just as they are able to pick…

Even though learning English can be problematic for speakers of any first language, some languages offer some respite due to the similarity between the two languages. With these languages, it is…