Speaking Skills: How to motivate adult learners at B2+ level
“A good teacher is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget”. If you keep…
Category: Teaching Tips
Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom?
Many students equate being able to speak a language as knowing the language and therefore view learning the language as…
Reading motivation? I dare you to read the whole piece and other stories…
Do something for me if you will. Google the word “brain”. The first result you get is the link to…
Speaking: The Achilles Heel of Language Learning
Back in November we contacted a number of teachers, teacher trainers, oral examiners etc. and asked them to write about…
Spark the Learners’ Interest for Writing
Well-verified classroom reality attests that writing and writing-production tasks constitute a multilayered procedure. As such, writing deviates from other aspects…
Building Writing Skills
Writing is often overlooked in EFL teaching and learning. At a beginning level, it may be seen as…
Practical Ideas for Developing Writing Skills
The developing of the language skills has always been a very hard and interesting task. The process of…
From Reading to Creative Writing
When discussing about writing, it is useful to consider some fallacies that have dominated EFL teaching in the last…
Reading: the taboo language skill
I think I can read your mind as you are reading the title of the article. “Reading? Why taboo? Who…
Using Authentic Listening Material
A report published in the Daily Mail a couple of decades ago gave reason for a light-hearted investigation. According…