Six useless things a foreign language teacher does

How about making use of your extra time to reflect on how you teach or coach or whatever you call what you do?

You may think that you're the best teacher/language coach in the world – most of us pedagogues do – but what we now know about how the brain learns is very different to what we knew when most of us did our TEFL or CELTA training all those years ago.

Here is an article which challenges a lot of our practices and assumptions.

Feel free to agree or disagree about any of the points mentioned in the article in the comments below!

Ian BAILEY

Independent English trainer, translator, webmaster

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