Resources

Looking for inspirational teaching tips, or handouts from an event that you’ve attended? You’ve come to the right place!

Multiple Intelligences in ELT

Part III

In the third and last article on Multiple Intelligences, I give an example of how to practise vocabulary through logical sequences in the young learner classroom. The suggestions can easily be applied to your own work.

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Multiple Intelligences in ELT

Part II

This is the second of a series of articles on Multiple Intelligences published in ETP. In it, I focus on the inter- and intra-personal intelligences, and offer some tips for developing and exploiting these intelligences in the classroom.

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Multiple Intelligences in ELT

Part I

This is the first of a series of articles on Multiple Intelligences in ELT. In it, I give an overview of Howard Gardner’s concept of MI. I also make the point that success in language learning requires more than linguistic intelligence.

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Interview with Herbert Puchta

The Teacher, Poland

This article was first published in The Teacher, Poland. It’s about the teaching of teenagers, a topic that has always fascinated me, and some content issues that I regard as very important.

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Teaching with children in mind

Interview

Melanie Butler asks me questions about CLIL and teaching thinking with young learners, and also about Super Minds, my latest course for young learners. Interested in my answers? Download this interview!

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Jack Scholes interviews Herbert Puchta

Teaching grammar & creativity

Another interview with Jack Scholes and New Routes, Brazil – this time about teaching grammar and creativity, the use of guided imagery work in the English language classroom, and how the brain helps us learn a foreign language.

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Jack Scholes interviews Herbert Puchta

Teaching young learners

This is an interview I gave to Jack Scholes from New Routes, Brazil. Jack asks me questions about teaching young learners, but he also challenges me to gaze into my crystal ball and predict the future of ELT.

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Checklist for Success with Teens

Teaching teens

Are you a teacher of teens? This checklist might help you to specify areas you might want to explore further, from creating a classroom culture that students want to belong to, to choosing the right content.

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The role of motivation, beliefs and identity

Edinburgh, Scotland

This is an updated version of the plenary Beyond materials, techniques and linguistic analyses: The role of motivation, beliefs and identity that I first gave at the IATEFL conference in 1999.

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Students' attention span - where has it gone?

Teaching tips

This handout goes with my talk Students’ Attention Span – Where has it gone?, and discusses the problem of reduced attention spans and what we can do to help.

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