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Generally speaking, for our learners, the most time they spend with English is in the classrooms. They come to our lessons to spend the hour or so learning new language…

One of the key factors in creating and maintaining an effective learning environment in your classroom is personalising your lessons. What this means, effectively, is getting to know your students…

Sometimes our EFL students can make mistakes and it’s ok: the mistakes don’t really affect their meaning and it’s still possible to understand what they are trying to say, but…

Grammar-Translation. The Communicative Approach. The Audio-lingual Method. You’re probably aware of these teaching methods and approaches from your TEFL course. These days not many EFL teachers would argue against the…

Being an English as a Foreign Language teacher means we have to deal with numerous classroom management issues in order to facilitate the optimal learning environment. However, sometimes there are…

Have you ever found yourself teaching your learners a new vocabulary item only to realise later in the lesson that, even though they were nodding enthusiastically and saying “Yes, teacher,…

A millennial (n): a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000 If you are already a qualified and experienced TFEL teacher, you may have already encountered them in your…

Monitoring is one of the most basic skills an EFL teacher needs to learn to master in the classroom. Monitoring effectively allows students to practise language in their own capacity…

If you are teaching EFL in a school, there is a good chance that you have a learner with Special Educational Needs (SENs) in one of your classes, as a…