In the classroom: the skills of translating   Translation is a real-life skill as well as an examination test, and the process of translating has traditionally been part of language courses at all levels. Lauren Houldridge here explores the enrichment that carefully planned and supported translation activities can bring to learning and the skills that […]

Teaching and learning … with social justice in mind Danièle Bourdais We all have a personal reason behind our quest for decolonised social justice. Mine is rooted in childhood. Despite growing up in an ordinary white middle-class family in an exclusively white community, I became aware, at a very young age, of the existence of […]

Different aspects of speaking Speaking in the target language is, of course, one if the four skills we develop in language lessons, and there are many different elements for us, and our learners, to bear in mind: The accent, the intonation or tone, the register, the correspondences between sound and spelling, the type of discourse […]