The Competency-Based training method was developed primarily for Industry. The training was based on what people were expected to do in the workplace. It emphasized what people could actually do as a result of their training rather than simply looking at the amount of training that the employees attended. This […]

Communicative Language Teaching (or CLT) is a popular approach to language teaching which emphasizes using language in the same way that it’s used in real life. In other words, you put your students in language situations which are as close to real life as possible. Origins of CLT Before the […]

A cloze test (or gap fill exercise) is a simple exercise where a text has certain words removed and students must suggest suitable alternatives to go in the gap. Cloze tests are a common activity teachers use to get students to focus on a particular language item. They can be […]

Classroom Motivation is concerned with getting your students involved in the lesson and enthusiastic about learning. To be motivated the students must be engaged. This means that they must feel personally involved in the lesson. If they are not involved then this opens up a distance between them and the […]

If only teaching were all about teaching and not about keeping order in the classroom or, as it’s sometimes known, Classroom Management. A major part of teaching has nothing really to do with imparting information and helping your students learn. Instead it’s all about the lesson-to-lesson issues of running a […]