Engaging the Teenage Mind: Interactive Strategies for Language Learning
Teaching a foreign language to teenagers has been one of the most dynamic and rewarding experiences of my career. It’s…
Category: Teaching Tips
Global Chatmates: Teaching Teens Beyond Borders
In a small rural high school in southern Greece, a bold idea took root—what if teenagers could transcend borders and…
VIEWPOINTS: From quiet to confident
QLS’s Approach to Boosting Teen Conversational Skills Have you ever stepped out your teen classroom for a minute or two…
Creating spaces for conversations
Some thoughts behind the scenes Our teacher events at LanguageCert start with questions and big ideas; we want our teaching…
The Tiny Book Project, Part A: Boosting Writing with Just One Page
A creative-writing activity built around a single A4 sheet folded into a tiny book. Designed to increase writing fluency, strengthen…
Literature For Teenage and Adult Learners
It frequently comes to my mind the time I was preparing to sit B2 and C2 level exams, back in…
Having Fun While Learning? Guilty!
If you’ve ever seen students giggling over a book or eagerly flipping through pages, congratulations—you’ve witnessed the magic of extensive…
“Examining Cultural Contexts in Textbooks/ Impact on Students with Learning Disabilities”
Education is a powerful catalyst for shaping the minds of the future generation, and textbooks stand at the forefront of…
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT : Fostering learners’ autonomy through collaboration.
First coined in early 1980s by Henri Holec, researcher in the field of language autonomy, the term actually refers to…
Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in the EFL Context: Strategies for EFL Teachers
Another academic year is heading towards its end and most of us have already started thinking about its course and…