Now you've read about CLIL (see our entries on CLIL here and here if you've missed them), you must be willing to look into a similar approach to the teaching of languages: content-based learning (CBL).Here's an excellent starting point: a summary ... read more
Teaching EFL (to teens and adults)
Back again with a new lesson observation report. This time, I chose to observe the teacher's 'meta-language'. As you will read on the scanned pages in the report - from Ruth Wajnryb's Classroom Observation Tasks - by teachers's meta-language, we m... read more
Ways of Teaching
Seminar ReportPermanent Professional Development 2009: Integrating Technology to Language LearningSeptember, 26thInteractive Whiteboards: Friend or Foes? by Gareth Davies According to the presenter, interactive whiteboards are like ordinary whiteb... read more
The Teacher I am
Probably one of the most obvious difficulties when we ask our students to write something in English is to give them a valid reason for doing so. As a teacher who decided to promote a communicative classroom, I would say that the best way of overc... read more
You Teach What You Are