Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

For years, I have struggled with ‘group work’ in lessons. And, I’d admit that that was born out of a sense of control and desire to manage t...

Silence might be  golden, but talk is magical.  It is interesting that the latest focus is on oracy when the past decade has been obsessed a...

One of the things about oracy is that we often focus on the what rather than the how students speak. Communication is much more than words a...