TEFL Articles
A selection of articles and essays related to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. Many of these were first published in the TEFL.net Inspire! magazine. If you wish, you can submit an article for possible publication.
Functional Language For IELTS Speaking
The most important language for all parts of the IELTS Speaking exam.
Activities For Ordinal Numbers
Stimulating practice for “first”, “second”, “twenty third” etc.
Teaching Grammar In Business English Classes
Looking at the practicalities of bringing grammar into classes that are mainly about business communication.
Practice for modals of possibility/probability
Stimulating ways of practising must/may/might/could/can’t for speculation.
Classroom Activities For IELTS Reading
Easier, more fun, more challenging and more useful classroom tasks for IELTS Reading.
How To Teach Teleconferencing In English
A practical guide to helping students cope with this most challenging and most modern of skills.
What Your Students Need To Know About Thanking In English
Things to teach to students of all levels about the most important kind of politeness.
Thanking Activities
Entertaining ways to practise expressing gratitude.
Planning And Paragraphing Activities
Stimulating ways of quickly improving your students’ vital writing skills of planning and paragraphing.
What Your Students Need To Know About BULATS Writing Part One
How students can boost their score in the first part of the BULATS Writing exam.
Guessing Games For Third Person S
Fun practice for one of the most common mistakes in English, including ideas useable with levels from False Beginner.
What Your Students Need To Know About Emailing
Things you need to cover to really teach the vital skill of emailing in English.
Names In The English Language Classroom
Issues associated with the use of student and teacher names in class.
Teaching Names
Practical tips on bringing up the topic of names in the ESL classroom.
Typical Problems Pronouncing the Alphabet
A summary of problems different students have with saying and recognising the English alphabet, including in connected speech
Minimal Pairs
Minimal pairs are underexploited. This article looks at how teachers can teach pronunciation with minimal pairs, with some specific ideas for classroom use.
Homophones in the EFL Class
Reasons to use homophones in teaching English and lots of ways to do so
Dealing with dominating students
Activities and classroom dynamic techniques for coping with students who take over
Politically correct language in the EFL classroom
Suggestions for bringing the topic of political correctness into class in interesting ways, and for dealing with PC issues when they come up naturally
Gender in the language classroom
Classroom issues connected to gender and interesting ways of using that topic in classes of various ages Presenting Vocabulary in YL Classes Ideas on Classroom Management in YL Classes Cool Corporate English Consciousness Two Gateways for Teachers of English Word Up Review by Alex Case A Tip for the Possessive Apostrophe School Administration Software for Smaller Language Schools Operation MathLog - a progress report Guide to Teaching EFL in France Our House Hands off that e-dictionary! Lexis - the new grammar? Marketing Your Language Program 101 A Student Like Me Motivation and Motivating in EFL Coursebook: Take it or leave it Intellect or Affect? Speaking Practice through Presentations Are You Netting the World's best ESL Resource? Classroom: Forum or Arena? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Language Learning SAC Shock!! Should ESL Instructors Speak Other Languages in the Classroom? 20 Presentation Tips for Your Students Cutting Out Cutting Up How Was the Dip? Notes on Using Video in the Language Classroom The Cultural Dynamics of Teaching The changing winds and shifting sands of the history of English Language Teaching Ingredients for Successful Communicative Tasks Taking off the Training Wheels Language and Sex Accommodation Theory An Introduction to "Befogging" Idioms |
