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English Club TEFL ArticlesA selection of articles and essays related to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. Many of these were first published in the TEFL.net Inspire! magazine. If you would like to submit an article of interest to teachers, please click here.

Presenting Vocabulary in YL Classes
Be creative. Be appealing. Be quick. To make sure your students will remember all the new words you taught them, be fun and have fun as well!
Anita Kwiatkowska

Ideas on Classroom Management in YL Classes
Tips to make your Young Learner classes work like magic
Anita Kwiatkowska

Cool Corporate English Consciousness
Giving your corporate classes the best approach
Dante Cuevas

Two Gateways for Teachers of English
Review of EnglishClub.com and TEFL.net
by Rolf Palmberg

Word Up Review by Alex Case
The biggest hit in our school this year

A Tip for the Possessive Apostrophe
Apostrophes need not be learning catastrophes
By Rolf Palmberg

School Administration Software for Smaller Language Schools
Provides school owners and administrators of smaller language schools with background information on school administration software
By Joachim Fuchsluger

Operation MathLog - a progress report
An internet-based EFL maze for logical-mathematical learners
By Rolf Palmberg

Guide to Teaching EFL in France
An EFL teacher shares her experience of teaching in central France
by Nadia Zehni

Our House
Suggestions for a text-based CALL lesson
by Rolf Palmberg

Hands off that e-dictionary!
The (few) merits and (many) disadvantages of e-dictionaries from the author's point of view
by Glen A. Hill

Lexis - the new grammar?
How new materials are finally challenging established course book conventions
by Paul Meehan

Marketing Your Language Program 101
The basics to successful promotion of your courses
by Sarah Elaine Eaton, M.A.

A Student Like Me
Suggestions for those who aspire to re-enter the classroom to get a degree
by Nasreen Hussain

Motivation and Motivating in EFL
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Coursebook: Take it or leave it
We do not have to dispense with the textbook. We only have to disabuse ourselves of the tendency to take a coursebook as gospel.
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Intellect or Affect?
Intellect or affect? one may ask. Certainly both. We should not view them as two forces vying with each other, but as the ends of a continuum that is called self-awareness and spiritual elevation.
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Speaking Practice through Presentations
Josef Essberger

Are You Netting the World's best ESL Resource?
Josef Essberger

Classroom: Forum or Arena?
A look at some of the factors that play an important role in the teaching-learning situation.
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Language Learning
Diana Beaver

SAC Shock!!
Tips for self access centres
Alex Case

Should ESL Instructors Speak Other Languages in the Classroom?
Eric Dondero R.

20 Presentation Tips for Your Students
Josef Essberger

Cutting Out Cutting Up
Tips for lesson plans
Alex Case

How Was the Dip?
A personal reflection on the DELTA
Alex Case

Notes on Using Video in the Language Classroom
Josef Essberger

The Cultural Dynamics of Teaching
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

The changing winds and shifting sands of the history of English Language Teaching
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Ingredients for Successful Communicative Tasks
Steven Tait

Taking off the Training Wheels
Douglas DeLong

What Future For CALL?
Stephen Orr

Language and Sex
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Accommodation Theory
Each one of us is aware that our style of speech changes in the twinkling of an eye, as it were, depending on a wide range of variables...
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

An Introduction to "Befogging" Idioms
Do idioms really call the shots?
Dimitrios Thanasoulas

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English Prepositions Listed This English Prepositions List is a list of all English prepositions, showing them in context with example sentences. Multiple question quizzes help you check your understanding, and illustrations clarify meaning.

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  • 370 example sentences
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