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Each month, we feature a different guest blogger to share their ideas, experiences and reflections of teaching children and teenagers English in diverse contexts around the world.
How playtimes develop language in primary school children
It is fair to say that my job is pretty enjoyable. I work for Play Scotland, Scotland’s leading organisation for promoting play. I am the Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) mentor. OPAL is a school improvement programme that supports schools to make environmental and...
Review: Exploring the language of film to teach YLs visual literacy by Romina Muse
IATEFL Annual Conference, Harrogate20th April, 2023 As the out-going editor of IATEFL YLTSIG’s publication TEYLT Worldwide, I was delighted to have a role in the hugely successful YLTSIG Showcase day at the 2023 IATEFL Conference in Harrogate. Among the wide range of...
Games for very young learners
For the first issue of TEYLT in 2024, I wrote an article sharing my thoughts on some significant factors in playing games concerning very young learners’ classes. In this blog post, I am going to attempt to outline 5 language-related favorite games of mine with this...
Teens and Generative AI
Generative AI, which can generate new and original content such as written texts, images, codes and music, has attracted a lot of people's attention including English language teachers and learners, especially since the release of Chat GPT in late 2022. Nearly 80...
A review of NILE’s Teaching Young Learners course
Introduction Teaching English to young learners is a challenging and rewarding activity that demands specialised skills and knowledge in order to cater for the whole child development in the classroom (Read, 2020). Teaching these types of learners entails more than a...
Review: Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand
“To live ‘elsewhere’ means to continually find yourself involved in a conversation in which different identities are recognised, exchanged, and mixed, but do not vanish.” (Arturo Islas, as cited in Chambers: 18) In Kindergarten at 60, author Dian Seidel takes the...
Dyslexia in pre-school language classrooms
Myths and facts about dyslexia Even though dyslexia has been well-researched, there are still many myths surrounding this specific learning difference. One of them is that symptoms of dyslexia do not appear until primary school years. It is true that in the early...
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