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'Key Concepts in ELT' is a feature of the Journal that aims to assist readers to develop an appreciation of central ideas in ELT, and to approach the content of articles from a perspective informed by current debate on aspects of theory and practice.

Dr. Richards has written numerous articles on a wide variety of topics in language teaching. The following are examples of recent articles for an audience of classroom language teachers.

“Contributions to Creative Classrooms” is a unique ELTA publication. It is a collection of activities developed by the teachers who attended the ELTA/British Council training course “Creativity in the English Language Classroom”. The course was supported by the British Council and based on the British Council publication “Creativity in the English Language Classroom”.

Fifty tips for ELT Materials WritersEd. Katherine BilsboroughMultiple authors
In June 2016 I delivered a one-month online course with iTDi called Creating ELT Materials. Participants came from all corners of the globe. They were working in many different c...

Classroom examples of using the BYU-COCA corpus interface.

This 1977 booklet from the ELT Documents series contains four main chapters and a postscript which introduce communicative techniques, still at that time in an early stage of development, to a wider audience. 

The book is a showcase of best practice from a variety of teaching contexts around the world, where colleagues have successfully embedded equality and diversity in English language teaching.

This pack represents the outcome of a project proposal started at the Hornby Summer School Brazil 2006 where we had the opportunity to explore the concept of Intercultural Competence in depth, as w

It also aims to describe teaching and classroom management strategies to create an inclusive learning environment and positive experience for English language learners with specific needs.

It coincided with a visit to schools in the city of author Louise Cooper, who also contributes to this book, and a short series of workshops for teachers about the project.

Despite this, little can be found in the literature on blended learning course design or detailed descriptions provided of blends used in ELT contexts.

The activities will help teachers to explore the role of creativity in the classroom both in the sense of helping students to express their unique creative identity and also by helping them to thin

Picture storybooks and the technique of storytelling provide teachers with an attractive and appealing resource for meeting the diverse needs of children in the primary English language classroom.

It brings together the experience and expertise of teachers from around the world to provide a range of stimulating and exciting classroom activities for the primary classroom.  There are 50 t

Throughout the world English is often taught in ‘low-resource’ classrooms, but there are few training materials which are derived from and which reflect this reality.

Edited by Alan Maley and Nik Peachey

It was inspired by the British Council's 15th Oxford Conference on Teaching Literature Overseas, which was held in 2000.