The TEFL world is opening up - be ready for the change - tips for packing
I had a message this week from an old friend from about six countries and a million years ago. She's still there, happily
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Tom Garside
Mar 30, 20213 min read
It's OK to make mistakes - error correction
Despite what you may have been told at school, errors and mistakes are an important part of learning. This is especially true in
I. Davidson
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Graduate Stories - I. Davidson
I found the Language Point Trinity College CertTESOL course more than meet my expectations. I chose it because I was new to teaching and
Grace Arnold
Mar 16, 20213 min read
The TEFL world is opening up - be ready for the change. Red flag checklist on a job posting
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
Tom Garside
Mar 8, 20213 min read
A surefire way of presenting past simple and present perfect tenses to learners
As with the presentation of most tenses, context is everything. Without the knowledge of when things are happening, and when a sentence is
Tom Garside
Mar 6, 20211 min read
Trinity CertPT: Certificate for Practising Teachers
Trinity CertPT: Certificate for Practising Teachers
Dariya Petrova
Mar 5, 20212 min read
Graduate Stories - Dariya
I have been teaching English for four years, both offline and online. My mother tongue is Russian, so on the course, I didn't only improve m
Tom Garside
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Present perfect or past simple? How to teach the difference.
The English tense system can be tricky for students. All languages differentiate between the finished past events and ongoing present events
Tom Garside
Feb 23, 20211 min read
EL Gazette February Issue - Teacher Training Special
The EL Gazette's February Issue is an absolute goldmine of information for aspiring teachers, teachers wanting to take the next level
Tom Garside
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Presenting new language part 2: Drilling and checking new language
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
Rosaria Gara
Feb 13, 20212 min read
Graduate Stories - Rosaria
I decided to start the Trinity CertTESOL course, after realising that my destiny is not to stay here where I am, but to travel around and
Tom Garside
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Presenting new language part 1: Eliciting from meaning to form
In order for students to fully understand and use the content that we teach, we have to consider a range of different aspects
Tom Garside
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Classroom Discourse Part 6: Building a self-monitoring classroom
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.
Tom Garside
Jan 26, 20211 min read
Goodbye social media - let's face it, it was never good
We're starting this year as we mean to go on. We've taken a good long look at social media, what it does, what it doesn't do, what it
Tom Garside
Jan 26, 20213 min read
Classroom Discourse Part 5: Teacher language and cognitive activity
In our last article about classroom discourse, we looked at the relationship between teacher activity and how students think. So where does
Claire Smith
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Graduate Stories - Claire
I took the Cert PT with Language Point this summer. I was working as a freelancer for Universities of Applied Science in Germany teaching
Tom Garside
Jan 18, 20213 min read
Classroom Discourse Part 4: Teacher questions: a discourse tool for higher student cognition
In the last article in the Classroom Discourse series, we looked at some ways of disrupting the restrictive IRF discourse routine, enabling
Tom Garside
Jan 7, 20212 min read
Career change - from here to TEFL
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,
Tom Garside
Jan 1, 20217 min read
Classroom Discourse Part 3: Increasing authentic interaction in the language classroom
In the last article, we identified a traditional feature of classroom discourse, the Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) exchange, which is
Emily Baraza
Jan 1, 20212 min read
Graduate Stories - Emily
I have been a high school teacher of English in Kenya for the last twelve years and the coordinator of training of literacy teachers and
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