Graduate Stories - Hazel
The CertTESOL under the guidance of Language Point Training, was a game changer for me. Although I must admit the course was challenging and
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Tom Garside
Oct 17, 20214 min read
How can the Trinity CertPT help you to specialise in ELT?
If you are looking for professional development in the English language education field where you work, the Level 6 Trinity Certificate for
Tom Garside
Oct 12, 20216 min read
How to teach communicatively with groups of 40+ students
Although the ideal for most private language centres is class sizes of below 20, with a range of ages and cultures studying together, the
Tom Garside
Oct 4, 20214 min read
What is the information gap?
Any form of education depends on a fundamental element: the gap between what students already know and what they are learning
Darcell
Oct 1, 20211 min read
Graduate stories - Darcell
The course overall was very involved. There were a lot of tasks that were required to be done in a short amount of time. However, that is
Tom Garside
Sep 30, 20215 min read
Time to think… Building critical/analytical thinking into the language classroom
While teaching a group of students in China, I once used the philosophical ‘trolley problem’ as a stimulus for discussion. The students had
Tom Garside
Sep 24, 20214 min read
If I could be anywhere...how to teach conditional sentences
Of all the sentence structures in English, some of the most complex and often-confused are conditionals. These useful but tricky structures
Julia Vilcosqui
Sep 10, 20211 min read
Graduate stories - Julia
I enjoyed the course tremendously. What stood out for me were the very kind and personable tutors we had on the course through which I learn
Tom Garside
Sep 7, 20213 min read
What is language practice?
In the language classroom, we hear a lot about the role of practice - students need to show their progress by using the language they are
Tom Garside
Sep 1, 20213 min read
Looking to the future… why is there no future tense in English?
As in most languages, we can talk about the future in English, but when it comes to teaching the language we use to communicate about the
Tom Garside
Aug 23, 20214 min read
4 steps to giving clearer instructions to language learners
If you were teaching someone to fold an origami crane for the first time, how would you do this? Would you explain every step at once, using
Ksenia Lysenko
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Graduate Stories - Ksenia
The course is absolutely perfect both for new teachers and for practicing ones. It helps to draw teachers' attention to the purpose behind
Tom Garside
Aug 15, 20213 min read
Inductive vs deductive approaches to teaching - what’s the difference?
As we have noted on this blog many times, the majority of language teaching in the world is performed by teachers working in a diverse range
Tom Garside
Aug 11, 20213 min read
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to language - what is the difference?
When thinking about how to present language to students at the beginning of a class, we have a choice to make: do we need to introduce the
Tom Garside
Aug 9, 20214 min read
Should teachers use students’ first language(s) in the English Language classroom?
Go into many language centre classrooms, and you will see a sign on the wall: ‘English only’, or ‘speak English in class’. Students are
Tom Garside
Aug 5, 20214 min read
What can a level 6 Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers (Cert PT) qualification do for you?
If you have an initial qualification in TESOL and a couple of years of experience in the classroom, you may be wondering where to go next...
Tom Garside
Aug 3, 20212 min read
A year of global connections
At Language Point, our goal is to bring internationally-accredited qualifications to teachers and trainees around the world, regardless of
Damian Walker
Jul 30, 20211 min read
Graduate Stories - Damian
It's been a pleasure to learn on your course. I’ve never written a testimonial before so here goes nothing!
Tom Garside
Jul 26, 20214 min read
How to teach listening: 3 ways to make listening activities more purposeful
Listening in a second language involves a lot more than identifying keywords and answering information questions, so why are most listening
Tom Garside
Jul 19, 20214 min read
Helping learners to develop written arguments
In this final article about teaching writing, we will look at another common essay genre: argument essays. Argumentation operates in
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