Context is the positioning of a word‎ or phrase. This can be used by the teacher to help students gain an understanding of its meaning. For example, look at this sentence. I saw a bright red fligret in the sky. This contains the unknown (and non-existent) word, fligret. However, we […]

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and it is based on the idea that subjects like geography, physics, history, etc. can be taught and learned in a language which is not the student’s mother tongue‏‎. (CLIL is also known as CBI or Content Based Instruction.) The emphasis in […]

Concept Checking is a way to make sure your students have understood what you have been explaining. It’s about asking the right questions‏‎. These two examples show why concept checking is necessary in your classroom: Example 1 You asked your students to read a passage in a book. Afterwards you […]

The Competency-Based training method was developed primarily for Industry. The training was based on what people were expected to do in the workplace. It emphasized what people could actually do as a result of their training rather than simply looking at the amount of training that the employees attended. This […]

Communicative Language Teaching (or CLT) is a popular approach to language teaching which emphasizes using language in the same way that it’s used in real life. In other words, you put your students in language situations which are as close to real life as possible. Origins of CLT Before the […]