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Using the webcam to engage with online students
Studying online can be a very solitary process and it’s this feeling of isolation that is most often attributed to the high rate of student drop-outs in online courses. As an online teacher, this makes...
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Warmers and fillers for the online classroom
The online classroom can at times seem like a very cold space and building a supportive and friendly environment for students while getting a clear idea of their capabilities can be quite challenging....
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Using the webcam to develop pronunciation
Developing students’ pronunciation is vitally important to help them achieve a good communicative speaking level. The best time to work on pronunciation is when we first introduce new language items...
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Using the text chat feature to teach English online
There are so many tools available to us in virtual learning environments and online teaching platforms these days that we can easily overlook the value of some of the less glamorous features such as...
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Aptis for Teachers and ten reasons for taking it
You may not have heard about it yet, but the British Council has created the Aptis test, an online language test which helps students and teachers to measure the level of their English. The test...
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Bucking the native speaker teacher trend
At EnglishUp we’ve never been afraid to choose our own path when we see that it’s in the best interests of our students and our policy of recruiting bilingual rather than native speaker teachers in the...
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11 Reasons why teachers don’t use technology
A recent survey reported in the UK newspaper the The Telegraph stated that as many as half of the teachers consulted for the survey said they rarely use technology in the classroom. This came as no...
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Why online learning often fails
The internet has made it easier, cheaper and some would argue even more effective to study than ever before. You can now log into online learning courses from some of the world’s most renowned learning...
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