CELTA stands for “Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults”. It is the original certificate course in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) or teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), and it has been running for four decades. It is highly respected and recognized globally, with 7 out of 10 employers worldwide asking applicants to have it.
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Author: Dan Cornford. Article originally published in issue no. 36 of the IH Journal. When you set up a speaking activity in class, is it enough to give the students a topic and tell them to just “discuss”? For successful (i.e. productive) in-class discussions,......
Authors: Lizzie Pinard. Article originally published in issue no. 37 of the IH Journal. How can we choose the right text for our students? Do we have in mind primarily linguistic benefits that it can yield, or should we go for content, interests and......
Authors: Kylie Malinowska and Cesca Key. Article originally published in issue no. 37 of the IH Journal. Being a teacher of English to kindergarten kids aged 3 to 5 has never been easy… Keeping the little ones focused and engaged for a whole class......
Authors: Kylie Malinowska. Article originally published in issue no. 37 of the IH Journal. Teachers of (very) young learners often use music in class. Songs, however, don’t have just a linguistic contribution to the YLs’ development, but they also enhance their overall wellbeing. So......
Author: Alex Zagorac. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Memorising new words isn’t something that happens to your students in just one class. Or is it? If we used in our classes a variety of memory techniques, wouldn’t our......
Author: Anya Shaw and Veronique Ward. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Are you sometimes at your wits’ ends trying to motivate your teenage students to practise a bit of writing? This entertaining article, apart from a pleasure to read,......
Author: Karl Emmet. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Teaching vocabulary is one thing, acquiring it is quite another. Once you’ve taught a new word or idiom, you need to recycle it regularly, so your students have a chance......
Author: Shaun Wilden. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Are your students interested in class projects? Then how about starting a podcast with them? This article tells you what online resources are available for such initiatives, and how podcasts......
Author: Hall Houston. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Speaking activities shouldn’t be conducted for the mere sake of speaking. In order for the speaking to yield improvement, they should be rounded off with some post-activity class feedback. Put......
Author: Yvette Phipps. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. How easy is it for you to manage your young learner classes? Getting your YLs to work with you efficiently can be challenging. This article gives you a useful,......
Author: Kylie Malinowska. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Do you teach very young learners? Do you often find yourself dizzily surrounded by a bunch of swarming, giggling under-fives? That’s a lot of fun, but very little teaching…......
Author: Maria Conca. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Do your young learners in the English class often go off on a tangent in their mother tongue? Why is it that they find it hard to listen to......
(Continued from Part I) In the first part of this article we determined that writing your own teaching materials can be a matter of having professional fun, but also of meeting your students’ unique needs by designing tailor-made exercises especially for them. And......
Author: Wayne Rimmer. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Is there more to practising pronunciation than just “listen and repeat”? This article claims that, yes, pronunciation can be taught and practised in more interesting and fun ways via materials......
Author: Ilinca Stroe There are people who enrol on a CELTA course to become qualified teachers of English without really knowing whether teaching is right for them. Despite the alluring prospect of getting an international certificate which can land them a job anywhere in......
Author: Anastasiya Shalamay. Article originally published in issue no. 48 of the IH Journal. You’re basically a face-to-face teacher who’s had to transfer their in-presence teaching skills online. Have you noticed all the differences between the two ways of teaching? What changes do you......
Author: Thomas Entwistle. Article originally published in issue no. 48 of the IH Journal. Do you have classes where all the students come from the same mother tongue? Monolignual classes pose specific challenges for teachers, e.g. the extended use of L1 in class. This......
Author: Claire Parsons. Article originally published in issue no. 48 of the IH Journal. Correcting your students’ spoken English is always a topic of interest. Is it better to correct on the spot or to resort to delayed correction? And what type of errors......
Author: Xana de Nagy. Article originally published in issue no. 48 of the IH Journal. Have you at some point taught kids? If you’re an ex-YL teacher, this article will certainly make you miss those times! If you’re still currently teaching children, you’ll certainly......
Author: Ilinca Stroe While coursebooks seem increasingly more shaped by authenticist ELT philosophies such as Dogme, including radio show extracts for listening exercises and (adapted) newspaper or magazine articles for reading tasks, using unedited authentic materials in the language class as a complement to the......
Author: Jamie King. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. ELT, CCQs, TBL – how crazy are you about acronyms in teacher training? And have you ever wondered whether they might not favour form over meaning? This article cautions trainers and......
Author: Elna Coetzer. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. Practising and consolidating critical thinking skills in the YL language class is no novelty to 21st-century teaching. How do you do it best, as a teacher? By answering questions. Chubby questions.......
Author: Kylie Malinowska. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. What are coursebooks still for? With such a massive amount of online resources (games, crosswords, stories, songs, worksheets, flashcards, you name it), we might feel very tempted to do away with......
Author: Ilinca Stroe Language exams such as TOEFL or those in the Cambridge suite seem to be growing more and more popular. And important. Many times, people’s education, career or residence status depend on the exam score, while for many others the exams are a......
Author: Christopher Redmond. Article originally published in issue no. 44 of the IH Journal. Do you often feel out of your depth when trying to improve your students’ fluency, especially at lower levels? What would get them to speak more, what would break those barriers......
“Language teachers are especially well-poised to make a real difference in the lives of our students, and that is why we are but we are also not just teachers.” (Richard S. Pinner) Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest It’s mid-2020 and with the......
Authors: Matt Adams and Ethan Mansur. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. A very frequent (and often inconvenient) situation: you have to cover a lesson for a fellow teacher. It’s usually a last-minute request which leaves you little time......
Author: Luke Armstrong. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. So your students are advanced. What’s left to teach them? What English-language novelty can you still share with them? And are they still interested? Do they feel they still have......
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Teachers who had worked online as a rule before the covid-19 crisis struck and forced us all into digital immigration will probably snigger at the title. Rightly so. Full-time online teachers had already gained solid experience teaching English......
Article originally poublished on the International House World Organisation (IHWO) blog on 9 April 2020. Are you short of ideas about how to keep your students motivated and engaged during the Easter holiday? Professionals from several International House schools in Spain have come up......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47. Authors: Miguel Talag and Ethan Mansur Isn’t PowerPoint an almost indispensable tool now that we’ve transited to teaching online because of the coronavirus pandemic? How good are you at making the best of it? Are......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47, adapted for this site. Author: Sandy Millin. Are you struggling with the crazy amount of lesson planning you’ve got to do besides the teaching proper? Has stress become your permanent state of mind? How can......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47, adapted for this site. Author: Tatsiana Khudayerka. Are you striving to improve your students’ ability to read fast a text in English? Do you sometimes find it hard to think of new ways of practising......
Author: Ilinca Stroe “… so she get out of the station and start walking in the dark. No one in the street and she feel a bit scary. She not know where she go, exactly.” This is one of your students telling you how......
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Jazz isn’t the kind of music you like as a teenager. Or in your twenties. Its subtle manipulation of a symphonic range of rhythm patterns and melodic lines, its mesmerising blending and fusing, its puzzling mélange of sounds......
Author: Ilinca Stroe Whether you are a more or a less experienced teacher, surely you must have, at some point, lived a moment when, casually monitoring your students mid-activity, you were shocked to notice that they were doing something totally unrelated to what they......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47. Author: Amy Gowers. How do you feel about teaching teenagers? Intimidated? Uncomfortable? Out of your depth? Downright terrified? No, no, no: no need to worry, really. Teens are cool. So are you. This article gives......
Author: Ilinca Stroe Tick tock. It’s almost here: that time of the year when we’re all starting to sense magic in the air. The world around us is turning festive and celebratory, as glittery lights and shiny colourful decorations take over the town. And......
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest 21 October 2019: “Hi! Do you have any recommendations for a native English speaker that works with kids?” The request was posted on a +15,000-member Facebook group for expats living in Romania and it immediately rang a bell. An......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 45. Author: Anna Golc. Wait! Is that the all so familiar EFL, up in the headline? Or something else? It’s actually ELF. Not “English as a foreign language”, but “English as a lingua franca”. A momentum-gaining......
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 44. Author: Xana de Nagy. How green are your students? How sustainable are your teaching and their learning? The 3 Rs used to be about reading, writing and arithmetic. In today’s world, however, we should all......
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest When it comes to determining which is more important, grammar or vocabulary, teachers of English as a foreign language usually have their favourite: some of us love teaching grammar, whereas some others find teaching vocabulary a thousand times......
Author: Ilinca Stroe Let’s admit it: teachers, especially language teachers such as we TEFLers*, love to be liked by their students! Whenever we get this kind of feedback (“The students really like you”) from an observer, a trainer or an academic manager, we feel......
Author: Ilinca Stroe Quite often, teachers of English as a foreign language (and, most probably, teachers of other languages, too) find themselves in the following situation: in the middle of a reading, speaking or writing activity, a student turns to them as to a......
Article originally published on the IH Journal blog. Author: Alex Zagorac. If you’re looking for ideas to add fun and variety to both your adult classes and your young learner groups, here’s some inspiring input for you. Puppets can be a great asset......
Article originally published in the IH Journal. Author: Xana de Nagy. Minimal resources, maximal results? To ELT professionals, that’s a real ideal! Find it in this article which, apart from detailing how simplicity can yield great results in children and teenage classes, shows you......
This month’s blog post comes from Glenn Standish, DOS at IH Toruń. Thank you Glenn! It’s mid-term in a long, tiring but productive academic year. You’ve just finished writing the endless stream of reports, the parents meetings are planned and you as a teacher are......
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