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An Unusual Speaking Activity For Your EFL Classroom

Speaking activities in the EFL classroom are great for everyone involved. Students love a speaking activity because they love to talk. Teachers love speaking activities because they allow our students to feel free and be creative in their language usage.…

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Reading is an essential skill in any language. Consequently, teaching reading is a very important aspect of teaching a language. There are a number of different theories on the best…

How Teaching Phonics Can Lead To Better Readers

31st May 2018

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…

How EFL Teachers Can Use Psychology To Improve Their Teaching

30th May 2018

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…

How To Use Graphic Organisers In The Classroom

29th May 2018

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…

How To Make Your Writing Feedback Useful

25th May 2018

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…

Activities For Incoporating Reading In The EFL Classroom: Directed Activities Related To Texts (DARTs)

24th May 2018

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…

How To Make Learning Vocabulary More Effective

23rd May 2018

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…

Encouraging EFL Learners To Speak English In Class

21st May 2018

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…

21st Century Skills In The EFL Classroom

18th May 2018

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