If beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, where does innovation lie in the context of the L2 classroom?
Within the relatively slow-changing scenario of general education, the ELT industry has been an exception, benefitting from SLA research, from classroom research, from…
The effective use of class time is a big issue in contexts where the exposure to the target language in and outside the classroom is restricted by low contact hours, big groups, limited resources, poor internet access and little opportunity to use the target language outside…
Over twenty years since the publication of Michael Lewis’s The Lexical Approach[1] and having followed all the debate on it[2], where do we stand in relation to the teaching of vocabulary? A little review of the materials we use in our classrooms and our own attitude to…
The teaching of English as a second or foreign language industry has not only grown in numbers all over the world over the past three or four decades, but has developed in different directions, catering for different needs and teaching situations.
Looking specifically at the…
