The TEFL Academy Blog

Large classes in TEFL: What are they and how can we deal with them? Picture this: you’re teaching a Polish university student Academic English. You’re both seated at a table…

Immersion classrooms are the norm in teaching English as a Foreign Language. But what exactly is immersion learning?  What is the meaning of immersion learning? Immersion learning in a language…

What is error correction in the TEFL classroom? When you’re teaching English as a foreign language, there may be some moments when you despair of both your teaching and your…

Exams - who enjoys them? Not a person, surely.  Exams are stressful, anxiety-inducing and boring. Exams are serious business - for both students and teachers. Students have the pressure of…

In an ideal teaching environment, all your students are the same. They produce the same English. They need the same language. They make the same mistakes. In other words, it…

Parsnips. Those interesting little root vegetables, delicious when roasted with honey. Oh wait, that’s not what we mean. We’re talking about PARSNIPS in the EFL classroom. Does that make sense…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language involves many different aspects: teaching vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking. For most of us, we have lessons dedicated to each of these…

Part and parcel of being an English as a Foreign Language teacher is lesson planning, which, unfortunately, is a necessary evil. In the EFL classroom, there are a lot of…