Chiara Bruzzano

If your students struggle with listening, you might have to consider facing the source of their problems head on: their listening difficulties. Chiara lifts the lid on what the research and students say about the main listening difficulties, and how you can leverage them in your classroom.

Rubens Heredia

In this video, Rubens Heredia shares 5 ways you can use songs in your lessons.

Imagine introducing a language point in class, or getting learners to read a dialogue in pairs or even a part of a lesson where you are working on word stress with your class… these are all familiar scenarios that can happen face to face or live online. And, in each one, you and/or learners are, in a sense, performers, using storytelling, role-play and voice exercises, with the classroom acting as your rehearsal space.

How important is it for young learners to have a love of stories? Should teachers be responsible for encouraging their students to think critically from a young age? These are the questions that inspire and define The Thinking Train series from Helbling Languages.