The TEFL Academy Blog

On the TEFL course you undoubtedly spent some time considering the different stages of your lessons. No matter if you are utilising PPP or another structure, the important elements of…

Pronunciation is often overlooked by English as a Foreign Language teachers, to the detriment of their students. Pronunciation is a vital element of speaking a language in terms of comprehension…

Planning, planning, planning. Sometimes it can feel like that’s all EFL teachers do. But it’s a necessary evil. Necessary because we need a plan to ensure our lessons run smoothly…

Whether or not to use your students' mother tongue in the EFL classroom is a long-debated topic. We are teaching English, after all. It would seem that immersion is the…

Learner training is an aspect of teaching which is often neglected but which is very important. This sounds very disciplinarian but it’s not as scary as it sounds. Learner training…

If you hear the abbreviation IPA, do you think of beer? If you do, then this is for you. In the linguistics world, IPA stands for the International Phonetic Alphabet.…

It’s not often that stress is thought of as a positive aspect of life. However, there are certain situations where a little bit of stress can be beneficial. There is…

There are a number of ways to approach giving feedback on student writing. You can use correction codes, marking frameworks or correct everything. It almost seems as though there as…

We’re pretty sure you know how to ask questions. Every day in every lesson we ask our students a million questions in the EFL classroom and they ask us two…