Communication and understanding exist not in a vacuum, but are shared constructs. The map in this illustration serves as a…
Why I’m not giving up teaching
There’s so much I love about teaching English. There are few things that make me happier than spending my days…
Using digital materials to facilitate student intake
What are the benefits of using digital learning materials, and how you can you use digital materials to help facilitate…
Teacher’s Guides for supporting learners with Dyslexia
I recently authored two Teachers Guides for Cambridge Assessment English on supporting learners with dyslexia. The guides offer lots of…
Ways to Develop Your Practice through Self-Reflection
It is not enough to teach in a particular way just because if ‘feels right’ or because we’re in the…
How to Approach Subject Content Teaching in Primary
From science, geography, maths and computer sciences, to art and physical education – around the world teachers are delivering subject…
Using TV as a Medium for Learning
The immediacy of television, along with the variety of programme genres available, makes it an engaging and motivating resource for…
Variety in the Socially Distanced Classroom
Approaches to Whole-Class Discussions With limited choices about how we organise socially distanced classrooms, how can we vary the ways…
Mind the gap!
5 Communicative Activities for the Socially Distanced Classroom Classrooms are complex places, influenced by a range of elements. One of…
Lessons from Lockdown
According to the contexts in which they’re working, different teachers will feel differently about the extent to which they feel…
Making up words: the inclusivity and exclusivity of small-scale created vocabularies
All that is necessary for any language to exist is an agreement amongst a group of people that one thing…
Drawing to Learn Language
Follow this link to the Cambridge University Press World of Better Learning website to read my post highlighting the benefits of…
Exploiting Authentic Texts in the English Language Classroom
Follow this link to the Macmillan English Advancing Learning site to read my article describing activities and discussion questions designed…
Teaching Advanced Grammar: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
The vast majority of teachers at some stage in their career experience ‘imposter syndrome’, the feeling of being unequipped to…
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions: Pictured
4 Activities to Encourage Social Connectedness in Teenage Learners
Follow this link to the Cambridge University Press World of Better Learning website to read my post on activities to…
Manifesto for Learning
Kieran Donaghy and I are proud to share our ELT Manifesto for Learning, part of an exciting new educational project…
Visuals to Support L2 Learning
Follow this link to the Cambridge University Press World of Better Learning website to read my post discussing how visuals can be…
Different types of language used for EMI and CLIL programmes
Follow this link to the Cambridge University Press World of Better Learning website to read my post about the differences between EMI and…
Little & Often: Bite Sized Learning
Follow this link to the Cambridge University Press World of Better Learning website to read my post about bite-sized learning and why…
