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For many of us, the new academic year is about to begin and, like the new year resolutions we make in January, we begin this year telling ourselves that 'this year I'm going to make sure I...' For me, it's always to be more consistent and methodical when it comes to helping students to develop their...

Hi Kelly, I only got involved in online teaching during the first lockdon, like many others, I assume. I was actually quite positively surprised by how effective it is (can be). I was inspired to create Wordpool.com with a pragrammer friend of mine. It's basically a notebook to which both the teache...

Hi all, Quick question. How do you get your students to write down and review new vocabulary? Okay, this is a bit rhetorical. A friend and I have created a web based app: Wordpool.com The idea is that you create a wordpool, which is a list of all words that come up in the course of a lesson. This ca...

Hi neofin, I have been obsessing with the same question for a long time, so I eventually built something to help. I say I built it, to be honest it was my programming genius co-founder who did most of the building, but please, check it out. We're not officially launched yet, so there may be some rou...

Choosing appropriate texts and grading your own language to suit your students' needs and level is definitely one of the toughest things about starting out in tefl. I don't know how much this will help, but I have recently been using a great text checker resource from Oxford learner's dictionaries (...

Hi, I have been teaching for around 20 years and am currently working as a Dos in Spain. I have tried numerous ways of trying to encourage my students to record new vocabulary effectively, with varying degrees of success. What I would like to know is how many of you agree that this is a problem? Am ...