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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Teaching writing is possibly not on your list of favourite things to do. A lot of students don’t enjoy writing or may even think writing in class is a waste…

In EFL, we often find ourselves teaching topics which we have taught a thousand times before – family, crime, global warming, education and technology, to name a few of the…

What are authentic materials? Menu's. Newspapers. Instruction manuals. Timetables. Blogs. These are all examples of authentic materials.  Why are authentic materials important in teaching? Why should you use authentic materials?…