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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.
Using authentic materials in the secondary ELT classroom
Have you ever asked yourself how come - more often than not - students are reluctant to use textbooks? Well, it might have something to do with the clash between the prescriptive nature of the curriculum and the fluidity of learning. It is possible to construct and...
Nursery rhymes in the early years
As young learner teachers, we understand the importance of rhymes, which have been promoted as effective for developing children’s phonological awareness and reading skills. However, starting to use rhymes in class might be a bit challenging for newly qualified...
Four Tips for Building Rapport with Adolescent Students
“Curious” but “uncertain”, “temperamental” but “quiet”, “rebellious” but “self-conscious”, “restless” but also “compliant” and sometimes “lost”, these are only some of the adjectives that describe my personal favorite group of learners and their perfectly imperfect...
Promoting Equality in African Schools – a Volunteering Experience
For millions of children across Africa, the end of primary school is the end of their education because too few secondary schools exist. Also, the existing schools charge unaffordable fees. So, only around a third of African children have access to secondary...
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...
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