English Teaching professional blog from Chia Suan Chong

Continuing her blog series, Chia Suan Chong looks at the things she has learnt from her toddler about language learning and how we can apply them to language teaching.

As the teaching of the English language takes on thecharacteristics of a global product sold to local markets, Chia Suan Chonglooks at what we can learn from the localisation of big brands and how we coulddo the same with what we offer. 

Do you encourage your learners to keep lexical notebooks? What do their notebooks look like? Chia Suan Chong shares some ideas to make lexical notebooks work for our learners.

Chia Suan Chong expresses her issues with 'warmers and fillers' and wonders if these are activities teachers use to waste classroom time.

Chia Suan Chong assesses the potential learning applications of the latest videogame craze.

Chia Suan Chong looks at how the UK's EU referendum result has affected those in ELT and the ELT industry in the UK, and considers the place of the English language in the EU.

Does a prepared teacher always have detailed lesson plans? This week, Chia looks at what it means to be a prepared teacher and considers ten ways of doing so.

Chia Suan Chong looks at the nominations and the winners of this year's British Council ELTons and considers the meaning of innovation in our industry.

In the final part of her blog series on communicating internationally, Chia looks at seven more tips for native speakers including the use of humour, accommodation and adaptation skills, and cultural awareness.

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong provides a handful of strategies that native speakers can use to facilitate more effective international communication with non-native speakers.

In this week's blogpost, Chia Suan Chong reflects on lessons learned from the 50th IATEFL conference, and why English teachers should be embracing change.

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong looks at more reasons why native English speakers need to think about the international implications of their communication.

In the first part of a new series, Chia Suan Chong looks at the concept of 'international English' and considers why native speakers should be speaking it...

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong reports back from ELT Ireland's second annual conference

Despite its shortcomings, there are many things that Chia Suan Chong likes about the CELTA course. Here are ten of them.