The TEFL Academy Blog

There is no disputing the fact that learning vocabulary is one of the building blocks of learning a language. Without grammar a learner can still get by but without vocabulary there…

Conversation lessons can seem like a dream come true. Being paid to have a fat chat with your students sounds like the best kind of lesson for a teacher. But…

Being an EFL teacher is a dream job, but it’s still a job. We can speak about the importance of student motivation until we are blue in the face but…

Whether you like them or not (!), teaching Young Learners is the reality for the majority of EFL teachers all over the world. The thing is, your TEFL course probably…

Pronunciation matters, we know this. Yet for most of us pronunciation does not feature hugely in our EFL lessons. Sure if we discover our students making particular pronunciation errors during…

When was the last time you wrote an exam? Do you remember how you felt? Why do you think you felt like that? In this blog we'll explain how to…

As English as a Foreign Language teachers, our main aim is to help our students in learning how to communicate in English. Consequently, we do our best to keep up…

The Middle East is fast becoming a hub for teaching English as a Foreign Language. More and more EFL teachers are making their way to Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Kuwait…