One of the questions in a Needs Analysis questionnaire that I use with general purpose intermediate learners asks them What do and don't you enjoy doing in the classroom? In reply to this question, one learner replied I don&#…

It is very unlikely that any of our learners will ever know all the words they need. English has an enormous number of words - on the Oxford University Press website they estimate it at a quarter of a million words. Even advance…

If you've not yet read Part One of this article, click on the link To summarise where we’ve got to so far : inferring words from context is a skill which is necessary for our learners if they are to deal effectively with the…

This post, based on material used on our Delta Module One Course, discusses the use of authentic reading texts in the classroom. In particular it looks at: a) the advantages of using authentic reading texts with learners . …