TEACHER STUDENTS
Essential ELT theory and practice for CELTA, DELTA, TEFL, and TESOL trainee teachers. Download free self-study materials to support your development!
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Lesson Frameworks & Planning Processes
Understand different lesson structures and planning stages to create engaging and effective lessons that support learning objectives.
View >Designing Practice Activities
Learn how to create meaningful practice activities that reinforce language skills, promote student engagement, and support learning outcomes.
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Classroom Management
Learn essential strategies for creating a well-organized, engaging, and inclusive learning environment that fosters effective teaching.
View >Error Correction
Explore different techniques for giving constructive feedback and correcting errors in a way that supports learning and builds students’ confidence.
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Guided Discovery
Learn how to help students uncover language rules through guided questions and exploration, promoting deeper understanding and retention.
View >Conveying Meaning & Concept Questions
Explore techniques for making language clear to learners, including effective ways to check understanding through concept-checking questions (CCQs).
View >Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP)
Understand this structured approach to language teaching, where learners move from input to controlled and freer language use.
View >Test-Teach-Test (TTT)
Learn how to assess what learners already know, address gaps through targeted teaching, and then reinforce learning through practice.
View >Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Discover how to design lessons around real-world tasks that encourage authentic communication and develop learners' language skills naturally.
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Teaching Grammar
Explore effective approaches to presenting, practicing, and integrating grammar in lessons to support learners’ understanding and use of structures.
View >Teaching Vocabulary
Learn techniques for introducing, reinforcing, and expanding learners’ vocabulary through engaging and meaningful activities.
View >Teaching Functional Language
Learn how to clarify and practice language chunks used for communication, focusing on meaning, form, and appropriacy in different contexts.
View >Teaching Pronunciation
Understand key aspects of pronunciation, including sounds, intonation and connected speech, and explore practical techniques to help learners improve their spoken English.
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Teaching Speaking
Understand speaking competence and explore strategies for developing learners' speaking skills, balancing fluency and accuracy, and encouraging meaningful communication.
View >Teaching Writing
Learn the components of writing competence and how to guide learners through the writing process, from planning and structuring ideas to producing clear and coherent texts.
View >Teaching Reading & Listening
Understand how to help learners practice and develop their receptive skills through practical tasks, effective strategies, and engaging texts.
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Teaching Large Monolingual Classes
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Technology in ELT
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English as an International Language
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