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Often we can apply insights as teachers from other fields. Dean Rieck is a highly creative and successful direct marketing copywriter and author of the piece “Do You Have These 11 Traits of Highly Creative People?”     read more >>

Reading in a foreign language is hard work, especially for younger children. The teacher will have to decide which skills to focus on and devise activities which actively support learners’ understanding and guide attention to the chosen skill.

The following guide-lines may be useful when planning how to develop students’ reading ability at an early age.     read more >>

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction. Both methods result in the simultaneous learning of content and English.



If you teach EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction), LAC (Language Across the Curriculum), CBI (Content-based Instruction) or CBLT (Content-based Language Teaching; if you work in Bilingual Education; if you’re a subject teacher working through the medium of a foreign language, or a language teacher bringing in content into your English lesson, you work within the area of Content and Language Integrated Learning.     read more >>

Friday July 17th 2009 Guardian weekly

Interactive white boards: a valuable tool that can enhance the learning experience or a retrograde step back to classrooms where students are just passive consumers of information. Pete Sharma explores both sides in an increasingly heated debate about the role of technology.

Step up … multimedia tools can engage learners but also dominate lessons     read more >>