Editorial
A note from the editor, Robert McLarty
Classroom management
The final countdown
Lauren Angus describes a different activity for each day of the week with the aim of empowering and engaging students.
Building rapport to reduce anxiety
Nadiah Ammar describes the importance of a good atmosphere in your classroom.
English for academic purposes
Programme design – a wide angle view of the key components
Andrew Barker looks at the essential elements of programme design from different stakeholders’ perspectives.
Understanding the purpose of summaries in relation to assigned tasks
Do your students really understand how to write summaries? How can you help them? Roy Edwards starts a three-part series.
Critical thinking, EAP and supplementary resources
Anthea Fester describes a three-stage process for helping your students learn to think more critically.
Equipping students with basic qualitative research skills
Andrew Boon describes the steps taken with one of his classes as they learn how to do qualitative research.
Rubrics: For teachers? Students? … Or?
Do your students understand when and how they are assessed? Is your assessment transparent? Gus Wong offers some advice.
Academic writing: trials and tribulations
Kat Robb offers some insights into her EAP learners and how she helps them improve their reading and writing skills.
What is really common in EAP?
Mark Krzanowski considers the importance of disciplinary variations and genre specifications. Certain skills and vocabulary sets are common to all academic English.
A tale of two EAP programmes: preparatory & freshman
Do all your students know what subject they want to go on to study in higher education? How easy is it to get your Academic English up to the appropriate level? Read this study of two contrasting cohorts.
Planning
‘The best laid plans …’
This article discusses why we need to factor in more time when we are planning lessons and courses.
The view from here
Managing millennials – the generational challenge and what it can teach us
Matthew Hallett describes some of the challenges and solutions managing the next generation of language teachers.
Management
Entrepreneurship education in ELT
Daniel Xerri describes ways of developing entrepreneurship skills within schools.
Teacher development
The Little Prince’s journey into language classrooms
What kind of teacher are you? Do you know? Are you the same every time? Jaber Kamali describes a wide range of teaching personalities and styles.
