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Kirsten Colquhoun is the Content Manager for The TEFL Academy. A graduate of Cambridge University and DELTA-qualified, she first started teaching kindergarten in Thailand in 2003. A South African, she has also taught in China, the UK, Spain, Qatar and South Africa, but these days she is a teacher trainer and freelance writer and editor.

3 Ways To Flip Your EFL Classroom

Flipping the classroom is a relatively new method on the TEFL scene. It became popular in mainstream schools and academies but it can definitely be used successfully in the TEFL classroom. As with all new methods, though, you may not…

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We know that teachers are always on the lookout for activities that can be used in the classroom, so here’s another one for you: dictogloss. It can be used for…

Dictogloss: An Activity For The EFL Classroom

30th March 2016

It’s a well-known fact that you don’t need to be able to speak Thai to teach English in Thailand or Spanish to be able to teach in Spain; in other…

Using The L1 In The EFL Classroom

30th March 2016

Being a teacher is about so much more than teaching. Being a teacher means you need to prepare lessons, carry out lessons, assess your students and just generally try to…

How To Reduce Anxiety In The EFL Classroom

24th March 2016

English can be divided into four skills. The productive skills are writing and speaking; the receptive skills are listening and reading. In the TEFL classroom we are concerned with teaching…

How To Assess EFL Speaking

23rd March 2016

For the majority of us, being in the classroom is the reason we love our jobs. Being with our students, working together on language issues, helping our students learn: we…

Is Planning Necessary?

18th March 2016

Learning English as a Foreign Language is often done in a classroom. What this means is that there will be a number of students who spend many hours in the…

How To Deal With Personality Conflicts In The EFL Classroom

14th March 2016

Teaching English as a Foreign Language means that you can find yourself teaching all sorts of learners, from kindergarten to senior citizens. There is a lot of information and advice…

How To Teach Older EFL Students

14th March 2016

Krashen. Thornbury. Harmer. If there are three names you need to get to know in this industry, it should be these three. While there are loads of influential names in…

Three Names In TEFL You Should Know

14th March 2016

There are many factors that need to be considered when planning and carrying out an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lesson: the content of the lesson, the needs of…

Classroom Layout In The TEFL Classroom

9th March 2016

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