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Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. Psychology is a part of our everyday lives, most of the time without us realising it. Psychology affects our own behaviour…

This article will examine the use of graphic organisers in the classroom. From your TEFL course you should know that our learners all learn differently. According to Gardner’s theory of…

Teaching writing and giving writing feedback can be frustrating. Writing is a tricky skill to teach. Many EFL students don’t enjoy writing or may not feel like it can be…

No matter how often we incorporate reading into EFL classrooms it is difficult to know how much our students understand. Directed Activities Related to Texts (or DARTs) are one way…

Learning vocabulary is a tough one. There are loads of different ways of learning vocabulary but at the end of the day all that is left for the student to…

Young Learners are cute, adorable, precious – until you put them in a classroom! Then they become little firecrackers just waiting to go off! Teaching English as a Foreign Language…

It can be really frustrating for teachers when we hear our learners speaking their own language in the EFL classroom. After all, we know they know how important it is…

As English as Foreign Language teachers, we teach more than English. In our EFL classrooms our students learn English but they also learn a number of different skills. One such…

When you think of being an English as a Foreign Language teacher, you probably imagine yourself standing in front of a class of thirty or so students. This is natural,…