by Emily Bryson | Feb 15, 2024 | All posts
I can’t begin to tell you how honoured I am to have been invited to sketchnote the plenary sessions at the YLTSIG webconference! What an incredible three days of enthusiastic ELT professionals sharing their insights and knowledge; I feel so lucky to be part of such a...
by Cristian Chiroque | Jan 13, 2024 | CPD
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...
by Kate Gregson | Jul 15, 2023 | CPD, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
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...
by Shay Coyne | Jul 4, 2023 | CPD
I’m Shay and I work as a freelance English teacher both online and face to face. Previously I was fortunate enough to work at a language academy that took professional development seriously and actively promoted it through weekly input sessions, providing specialised...
by Adrienn Szlapak | Feb 21, 2023 | All posts, CPD, Early Years, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
*In this post the terms ‘mother tongue’ and ‘first language’ (L1) are used interchangeable as defined by Pokharel (2001). This year sees the 24th edition of the International Mother Language Day and the focus is ‘multilingual education...
