Does teacher talking time matter? If you’ve been in the profession long enough, chances are that you’ve either been told that your teacher talking time (TTT) was way too high or that you’ve told another teacher (perhaps during peer observation) that his or her teacher talking time was too high.
(Edited from the original 2015 version) What is Demand High Teaching? I discovered Demand High Teaching in March 2012 through Jim Scrivener and Adrian Underhill’s straightforward, no-frills blog containing a brief introduction to the concept. In their words: “Demand High asks: Are our learners capable of more, much more? Have the tasks and techniques we …
A lot of what we do in class tends to be related to grammar in one way or another. This post, which won the British Council Blog of the Month Award in Feb 2013, examines some of the questions that we should ask ourselves when we plan a grammar lesson.
7 hypotheses that may account for some adult students’ perplexing lack of progress in their language learning. This post offers no solutions, of course. Only reflections and further questions.
