Kill CLIL Activities: How to Truly Integrate Content and Language Two birds with one stone. Sounds easy enough. The founders of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) must have …
Literacy in MFL: Teach Your Students to Read, and You’ll Gift Them a Lifetime of Learning As the old adage goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how …
4 Ways for Language Teachers to Master Classroom Management There’s a reason why this article is on classroom management and not classroom control. Control is one-sided. A successful …
4 Handy Types of Assessment in Language Teaching That Stray from Tradition Test, assessment, exam… Words so terrifying they send chills down the spines of even the most accomplished students. That may …
5 Secrets to Successful Content-based Language Teaching The sole aim of a math class is to teach students math, right? Nope, not if you’re using content-based language …
4 Activities with Pair and Group Work to Increase Student Talking Time in the Language Classroom Thirty students. One teacher. Sixty minutes. Yikes. It’s a daunting task, but don’t be intimated. Instead use those numbers to …
Tailored Lessons: 4 Foolproof Strategies for Teaching Foreign Language to Adults In any of your college classes, did you ever stop to play a game of duck duck goose? What about …
Improv 101: 5 Activities That Use Language Improvisation to Accelerate Learning Drama free? No thanks. Drama, specifically the improvised kind, has its time and place, even in the language classroom.…
5 Keys to a Creative Language Classroom Want to know a secret? Curiosity didn’t kill the cat. Lack of creativity did. The world has woken up to …
5 Reasons You Should Consider Competency-based Language Teaching in Your Classroom Why don’t we focus on communication before we focus on language? It may sound confusing and counterintuitive at first, but …
Say Goodbye to Anxiety: How to Teach Language Effectively to Absolutely Any Student Xenoglossophobia. Yup, that’s a real word. The fear of foreign languages is so common that they needed a term for …
6 Legit Activities to Adapt Authentic Materials to Your Foreign Language Teaching Needs Authentic. It’s a great word isn’t it? Genuine, real, legitimate, original all wrapped up into one…