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.

National Geographic Learning

After years of talking and writing about critical thinking (CT) and of reading and listening to others do the same, John Hughes and I decided that we should codify our thoughts on the subject. We knew what constituted a critical thinking activity and what did not, but we were less clear about how to define CT’s place in ELT materials. What did it mean in relation to the teaching of the four skills and to grammar and vocabulary?

Daryl Streat reviews Language Course Planning by Brian North, Mila Angelova, Ezlbieta Jarosz, and Richard Rossner.

Vanessa Reis Esteves reviews Focus on Vocabulary Learning by Marlise Horst.

Mark Dawson-Smith reviews Fairness, Justice, and Language Assessment: The Role of Measurement by Tim McNamara, Ute Knoch and Jason Fan.

Brian Brennan reviews a clutch of new titles published by Helbling Language.

Brian Brennan

"You might be forgiven for thinking that the front cover claim of ‘500 ideas for creating English language materials’ is a bit far-fetched, but I can assure you that there really are 50 units with 10 ideas in each." Brian Brennan reviews ETpedia: Materials Writing.