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Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips and Tricks. Keep up the learning and engagement with these helpful classroom teaching tips

Graded Reading for Grades: How Graded Readers can help with Exam Preparation

Preparing students for tests is a burden all teachers must bear. Test preparation can be taxing and take away valuable learning time from students as well as the enjoyment of learning a new language. However, learners want to know how well they are doing, and schools need to know who is making progress and who is falling behind. The problem of preparing...

My students complain that reading texts are too long and difficult to deal with… What should I do?

My students complain that reading texts are too long and difficult to deal withText by: Dimitris Primalis   Whether you teach a traditional EFL (English as a Foreign Language) class, or a class with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) books, your students may come across long and more demanding texts in terms of vocabulary, structure. CLIL texts are usually different in terms of task types (e.g. students may have to...

Reading: Wherein L2 Vocabulary belongs

The constituents of reading  Text by: Marina Siskou   A rarely defied teaching practice is the random introduction of the target language vocabulary beyond content.   Being presented with a bulk of target language words to ingest might turn out to be functional, if L2 learners are good at memorization. However words need to belong somewhere in order to mean something. Out of...

The Science of Reading

The Science of ReadingDoes reading really matter that much now that we’re in the digital age? Yes! In fact, in the digital age, when we encounter so many different texts and messages every day, our critical and analytical abilities may even matter more than ever. Without a rich vocabulary and background knowledge that we can apply and utilize, we will get tripped up in the...