A project that is really close to my heart! It introduces the concepts of social-emotional learning and explores its history and significance before giving you a plethora of activities to introduce into the language classroom. Ideas in Action: Activities for Social-Emotional Learning aims to guide language teachers as they integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) into their practice… Read more
Whilst a number of studies have explored the experiences of remote English language teaching in response to COVID-19, limited studies explored English language teacher-educators’ beliefs regarding their online tutoring practices. This article, co-authored with Gary Barkhuizen, reports on the finding of a study which attempted to identify tutors’ beliefs about the differences between face-to-face (F2F)… Read more
If you want to keep developing as a teacher, Modern English Teacher is a wonderful magazine to subscribe to. Not only does MET offer a wide variety of articles, blogs and vlogs, they also provide regular free webinars for teachers. My blogs can be found here. To read some of the many articles I’ve been… Read more
This teachers’ guide is specifically written for teachers of large classes. Because we all know that large classes can be a huge challenge, but we believe that even small changes can make a difference and that, over time, many small changes can make a big positive difference for students. A unique feature of the book… Read more
This teachers‘ guide introduces you to guided reading. Guided reading is a common differentiated teaching approach used in the young learners’ classroom to develop learners’ reading skills. It aims at helping all learners become confident and effective readers, starting at the level they are at. Guided reading is used to close the gap between shared… Read more
This teacher’s guide highlights the importance of explicitly teaching vocabulary in the young learner classroom. The understanding of written text means that we need to move our learners from using social, everyday vocabulary to talk to recognising and using more abstract vocabulary used in writing. Learners need extensivevocabulary building, multiple exposures to the new vocabulary,… Read more