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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.
3 Ways to Bring Sign Language into the Primary Classroom
As a college student, I was lucky to be offered the chance to study British Sign Language (BSL). I enrolled in a short course as a complete beginner and graduated with a fascination for sign language that has stayed with me since. The two worlds of ESL and sign...
Banned Books Week (18 – 24 September)
18 September marks the start of Banned Books Week, an annual event launched 40 years ago to celebrate free access to books, reading and information. The theme of this year's event is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us." We at the IATEFL YLTSIG would like to mark...
Why blogging is good for you
Hello and welcome (back) to the YLTSIG blog! My name is Adrienn Szlapak and I am the YLTSIG’s new Publications Assistant responsible for this blog. You can find out more about me on the Committee page on our website. My new responsibilities, which are super exciting...
Professionalising global TEYL practices: Focus on practitioners’ working conditions
Teaching as a profession requires a certain level of education and training to effectively carry out a plethora of duties and responsibilities. Teachers of children and teenagers need to be well-trained as their work involves considerable responsibility,...
Professionalising global TEYL practices – Focus on professional development
The year 2021 marked thirty-five years of the crucial work of IATEFL YLTSIG, and the anniversary web conference, Beyond an industry: professionalising global TEYL practices not only celebrated the occasion, but also opened doors for the crucial question: is TEYL a...
Professionalising global TEYL – Focus on innovative classroom practices
It is motivating to discover new pedagogical ideas and over the past two years, many of us have challenged ourselves by moving our teaching practices online. Another year on, and it feels like an injection of inspiration is what is now needed and the innovative...
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