The grammar discovery approach
In this article, teacher Joanna Buckle delves into the grammar discovery approach. But what is it and does it work?
One nineties development in English...
Phonics and the battle for literacy: experts cross pens in the ‘Reading Wars’!
Should we be using phonics in the classroom? Research editor, Gill Ragsdale weighs up the evidence…
Round 1: a closer look at the evidence
A thorough...
L1 in multilingual classrooms
In this article, Hamish Chalmers analyses the evidence for multilingual classrooms.
Attitudes to the use of L1 in the L2 classroom is an area of...
Authorship
Projects with purpose: writing for children boosts language learning and wellbeing.
The experience of authorship in a book project boosts wellbeing, self-efficacy, and motivation of...
EFL teachers’ enjoyment
Supportive schools make teachers happier and more effective.
School climate is a stronger predictor of teachers’ enjoyment than self-efficacy or wellbeing, according to a recent...
Students as altruistic teachers improve both wellbeing and learning
ESL students on a writing course made more progress when students taught each other altruistically, without apparent reward, according to a study with Iranian...
