Education
How to Support our B2-level Students while Preparing them for their LanguageCert International ESOL Spoken Exam
Oral exams can be a stressful part of the certification process. With this in mind, we are here to answer some of the following questions: how do LanguageCert markers assess...
How to teach adult restarters
Are you considering working with adults? Have you been approached by adults who would like to brush up their English or restart from where they’d stopped some years ago? In...
WHEN YOUR ENGLISH “RUSTS”
Can there be a comeback? Psychologists Jeffrey Bowers, Sven L. Mattys, and Suzanne Gage from the University of Bristol performed an interesting survey a few years ago. They selected English...
How do you restart, refresh and refine your English?
More and more adults are signing up for English classes either to receive a certificate, refresh their long-forgotten skills or just be able to use English for professional or personal...
5+1 valuable tips to consider before choosing a course book
Picking the right course book isn’t always an easy task. What you think may be the best choice, can prove to be a costly mistake for your class. However, no...
The role of a coursebook
Coursebooks are nowadays main sources of information in teaching; they help in achieving aims and objectives that have already been set in terms of learner needs. They are a useful...
How to teach children English using illustrated storybooks
Illustrated storybooks provide an ideal resource for helping children learn English. This is because children love listening to stories. Storybooks present language in familiar and memorable contexts, and high quality...
Teaching Young Learners: The age of Innocence
By Nancy Tasiopoulou, English Teacher, Doukas Primary School Teaching young learners is a unique experience, as it brings together the use of art, music, games, storytelling and technology. Not one...
Teaching Young Learners
It takes a special person to teach English as a foreign language. It takes an even more special person to teach English as a foreign language to young children. Young...
Providing Corrective Feedback in EFL Writing
Error treatment is one of the key issues in EFL writing faced by both teachers and researchers. When reviewing their learners’ texts, EFL teachers tend to provide feedback on several...
L1 interference in Writing
Sometimes, even at Proficiency level, L1 interference - the influence of the Greek way of thinking in the way we express ourselves in another language - is natural and inevitable....
Proficiency holders and proficient learners
The recognition of proficient acquisition of the English as a Foreign Language is officially assessed and distinguished into as set of specific pillars. Proficient acquisition reflects eloquent, confident and multileveled...
Why is it important to test all four skills?
Listening, reading, speaking and writing: these, as every language teacher knows, are the “four skills”. I expect that most language teachers, if asked, would say that they are all equally...
Testing for Language Proficiency
Tests can be powerful instruments of educational policy; thus testing can be seen as a political activity entailing tactics, intrigue and maneuvering within institutions that may not be political, but...
Addressing Disruptive Behavior in EFL Classrooms
The Fundamentals of A Teacher-Based Functional Behavioral Assessment (Fba) By Evangelia Vassilakou, MA in Applied Linguistics FBA is the process of gathering and analyzing information about a student’s problem behavior...
Homo Ludens - All the world’s a stage...
“Antigone: And does not Creon treat our brothers twain One with the rites of burial, one with shame? Eteocles, so say they, he interred Fitly, with wonted rites, as one...
The Importance of Differentiated Instruction to Different Learners
By Blerta- Matina Tartari “What we can do is to ensure that no matter who you are, no matter what your background, no matter your level of income, you can...
Classroom Based Assessment in EFL Classrooms
Let's stop using tests and focus on alternative forms of assessment By Irini Renika Papakammenou In the educational context teachers tend to assess students in order to measure what students...
Teaching Adults and Classroom Management Issues
By Maroussa Pavli* Are you teaching adults or thinking of doing so? Those of you who have already worked with adult learners can easily understand the relevance of the title...
What makes a lesson challenging and practical teaching hints
By Valia Georgilaki, Teacher of English, Doukas Primary School Are we ‘anaesthetizing’ students? A long term study in the USA, which was published recently and 1500 kindergarten children were tested,...
Do we Create a Culture of Excellence?
In the past two decades there has been a temptation to simply try to get through formal and foreign language education unscathed, to focus on the language exams success data...
Developing Reading and Listening skills
Listening is receiving language through the ears. It involves identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences. When we listen, we use our ears to receive...
