Even though the word gap issue is regarded by many as a more general problem rather than being specific to one group of learners, the impact can be especially crucial for students whose first language isn’t English. In this blog post, written for Pearson I talk about what the impact is for us teachers and the importance… Read more
In this blog post, written for Pearson back in 2019 (reposted in March 2023) I talk about supporting learners with dyslexia. While it’s not a language teacher’s role to diagnose specific learning needs, it is important for us to monitor our young learner students’ progress and have some understanding of dyslexia so can support our… Read more
In this blog written for Pearson, I’ll be talking about storytelling; why storytelling is so powerful, what the benefits are for learners and how you can use storytelling with your learners in the YL classroom. Since this blog is no longer ‘live’ here’s a link to web archive or you can simple read what I… Read more