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Three Cultural Considerations For TEFL Teachers

When teaching English as a foreign language, it’s a given that you’re going to land up teaching abroad so maintaining basic cultural awareness is important. TEFL Teachers teaching English to foreign students in their own country can easily forget to…

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By their very nature, English as a Foreign Language teachers are passionate about teaching and learning. We will slave away for hours planning awesome lessons, sourcing amazing materials and then…

Getting Students To Use The Target Language

9th April 2019

English as a Foreign Language students come to our classrooms to learn English. They expect to be taught grammar and vocabulary, practise using the four skills of the language, and…

Incidental Learning For English Language Learners

8th April 2019

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is an umbrella term which can actually manifest itself in a number of different forms. EFL teachers can teach different ages, different lessons, different…

Teaching Multilingual Adult Learners In The EFL Classroom

5th April 2019

Whether we want to admit it or not, every English as a foreign language teacher has their favourite class – be it kindergarten, teen exam classes, one-to-ones or adults. This…

5 Difficulties Teaching Adult Learners

1st April 2019

The field of English language teaching may be as old as the hills, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not changing. Teaching methods and techniques are continuously being developed, and…

5 Innovations That Have Changed English Language Teaching

28th March 2019

Considering that they spend their time and money to be in our classrooms to learn English, you would think our students would want to allocate much of their time to…

Encouraging Students To Speak English

26th March 2019

Teaching Unplugged is just one of the many teaching techniques that you can see being used in English as a Foreign Language classrooms all around the world. It is quite…

Teaching Unplugged In The EFL Classroom

19th March 2019

The English as a Foreign Language classroom is a very special space. It is often the only place our English language learners will be exposed to the language. Sure we…

A Language-rich Classroom Environment

15th March 2019

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