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The Trinity CertPT can be taken by teachers who work with second-language learners of English, in any study setting.

Ask a teacher about how their students learn best, and they will probably tell you that their students are ‘very visual learners’. They

As with any productive skills work, writing involves a wide range of different language subskills, as well as knowledge of text organisation

Pronunciation is an essential part of language learning, and needs to be tailored to the specific needs of the students you are teaching

So you've just finished your initial training course, you've started your first job and you’ve been given the materials you'll be using with

As any teacher will tell you, repeated mistakes in student language are frustrating, and can linger despite the teacher repeatedly giving

Despite what you may have been told at school, errors and mistakes are an important part of learning. This is especially true in

We're nearly through the first part of 2021, we’ve all been stuck inside for months, many of us under lockdown, dreaming of being anywhere

As with the presentation of most tenses, context is everything. Without the knowledge of when things are happening, and when a sentence is

Trinity CertPT: Certificate for Practising Teachers

The English tense system can be tricky for students. All languages differentiate between the finished past events and ongoing present events

Once someone identifies the concept of what you are teaching and gives the word or phrase you are looking for, it is time to do some

In order for students to fully understand and use the content that we teach, we have to consider a range of different aspects

Perhaps the most important set of skills for a student in any discipline is the ability to monitor one’s own progress and adapt accordingly.

In our last article about classroom discourse, we looked at the relationship between teacher activity and how students think. So where does

In the last article in the Classroom Discourse series, we looked at some ways of disrupting the restrictive IRF discourse routine, enabling

Recently, a trainee teacher on the CertTESOL asked me what I did before TEFL teaching. It took me by surprise. I suddenly thought, hang on,

In the last article, we identified a traditional feature of classroom discourse, the Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) exchange, which is

Ever since Socrates guided his students through philosophical problems in ancient Greece, questions have been an integral part of the

As language educators, we have a lot to think about when we are planning and teaching our classes. We are often so focused on the language w