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Why a Trinity CertPT in Teaching Lexically?

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Teacher Development and CPD, Teaching lexically, Trinity CertPT. No Comments on Why a Trinity CertPT in Teaching Lexically?

The Trinity CertPT in Teaching Lexically is the official title of our course for this level 6 qualification . Some of you may wonder how that works and whether out assessment is different to other ones listed on the Trinity website. Same assessment with Teaching Lexically content The short answer to this is no. All the different courses use the same assessments and follow the same criteria in terms of grading them. The focus is on evaluating published material, adapting material to your learners, writing material for your learners and assessing the success of your class with this...

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How should I use my coursebook? With principles!

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Classroom Activities, Core Principles, Teaching lexically, Uncategorized. No Comments on How should I use my coursebook? With principles!

It seems that most teachers see the value of using a coursebook, but the bigger question is: how should I use them? That was my conclusion from reading a recent post on LinkedIn by Katherine Bilsborough. She asked for English language teachers who were anti-coursebook to explain why they were against using them. As it turned out, most of the comments weren’t really anti-coursebook at all – maybe because they were from people connected to Kath, who is … a coursebook writer! However, I think this is just how the majority of teachers view coursebooks. There are those who loudly rant about the...

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Back in class: thoughts from learning and teaching languages at low levels

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Opinions. No Comments on Back in class: thoughts from learning and teaching languages at low levels

During the eighteen months of writing the new edition of Outcomes I put my teaching and language learning efforts on hold. Back in January 2022, when we started the project, I was teaching a beginner Spanish class and learning Russian, but it quickly became clear that my addled brain was not going to do multi-tasking very well, so the lessons came to an end.   Now Outcomes is finished and I’m back in the classroom. I’m teaching a low-level Spanish class with a colleague at Lexical Lab and also starting again with Russian as what I guess you might describe as a false beginner. In...

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