In this issue of Modern English Teacher

Moving Forward: Materials and Resources

John Hughes describes the process of helping teachers to write materials for classroom use and self-study, Nick Michelioudakis discusses two ways to develop creativity in your classes, and Wing Wu looks at how teachers can embed social and emotional support in their teaching. 

Other topics in this issue include: the use of pictures, online writing tasks, specialised language for work, teaching life competencies, and using data-driven learning to target vocabulary — plus much more.

In this issue of Modern English Teacher

Moving Forward: Materials and Resources

 

 

John Hughes describes the process of helping teachers to write materials for classroom use and self-study, Nick Michelioudakis discusses two ways to develop creativity in your classes, and Wing Wu looks at how teachers can embed social and emotional support in their teaching.

Other topics in this issue include: the use of pictures, online writing tasks, specialised language for work, teaching life competencies, and using data-driven learning to target vocabulary — plus much more.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online with Video

Nearly all of us have had to teach live online in the last year, and may have needed to make videos for our classes for the first time. In this month’s blog, David Dodgson shares his top tips for improving the quality of your online video teaching.

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The power of gratitude in the language classroom

Jeffrey Wilang

How do you come across to your students? How encouraging are you? Read this study and find out how important it is to be positive in your role of teacher.

Raising your profile

Fiona Dunlop

Do you know what your strengths and weaknesses are? What are you doing to improve? How much and how often do you network? Do you prefer to stay in your comfort zone?

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The contents of Pandora’s box

Ross Thorburn

Ross Thorburn argues that we take advantage of the opportunities this new medium affords us, while being alert to the potential ethical dangers.

Redefining 21st century skills

Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper discusses the development of blended learning and the need for independence among our learners. How can this be achieved with younger learners and what activities can be used to improve collaboration, community and creativity?

Days Crossing: inside the process of producing dramatic ELT video content

Jonathon Ryan

Jonathon Ryan describes the process of developing an ELT drama which is authentic in terms of plot and language, engaging for learners and useful to practise a whole range of language items and skills.

The contents of Pandora’s box

Ross Thorburn

Ross Thorburn argues that we take advantage of the opportunities this new medium affords us, while being alert to the potential ethical dangers.

Redefining 21st century skills

Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper discusses the development of blended learning and the need for independence among our learners. How can this be achieved with younger learners and what activities can be used to improve collaboration, community and creativity?

Days Crossing: inside the process of producing dramatic ELT video content

Jonathon Ryan

Jonathon Ryan describes the process of developing an ELT drama which is authentic in terms of plot and language, engaging for learners and useful to practise a whole range of language items and skills.

New for subscribers

The contents of Pandora’s box

Ross Thorburn

Ross Thorburn argues that we take advantage of the opportunities this new medium affords us, while being alert to the potential ethical dangers.

Redefining 21st century skills

Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper discusses the development of blended learning and the need for independence among our learners. How can this be achieved with younger learners and what activities can be used to improve collaboration, community and creativity?

Days Crossing: inside the process of producing dramatic ELT video content

Jonathon Ryan

Jonathon Ryan describes the process of developing an ELT drama which is authentic in terms of plot and language, engaging for learners and useful to practise a whole range of language items and skills.

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Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

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Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

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In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

National Geographic Learning

Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

National Geographic Learning

In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

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Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

National Geographic Learning

Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

National Geographic Learning

In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

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