Blogs and Vlogs from Pavilion ELT

Are our students able to tell the difference between fake and real news? Chia Suan Chong looks at how we can help our students evaluate the news they encounter with a critical eye.

At the start of 2017, Chia Suan Chong looks at 12 different new year resolutions teachers could consider making in order to inject some fun, some professional development and some excitement into the new year.

Chia Suan Chong looks back at the controversy on native speakers needing to learn to speak English internationally, and reflects on how language proficiency isn't always the key via an example from BBC's The Apprentice.

The terms 'culture' and 'intercultural communication' are bandied about in English language teaching, but what does it mean? Chia Suan Chong looks at what teaching 'culture' shouldn't be confined to, and what it could involve.

Looking back on the talks and workshops at the BESIG Munich conference, Chia Suan Chong considers the direction that (Business) English training is taking in an age of global communication.

The award recognises talent, creativity and excellence in Business and ESP in ELT.

Chia Suan Chong explores eight activity ideas and many more suggestions as to how we can make use of our students' smartphone camera function to generate content for the classroom.

Danny Norrington-Davies’ new book, Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons, provides teachers with an alternative approach to teaching grammar. This way of teaching considers how people actually use grammar, and how learners can be helped to understand what the speaker means. In short, it focuses on the use of grammar, rather than a rigid set of rules. We asked Danny to tell us about the benefits of this approach.

English Teaching Professional spoke to Danny Norrington-Davies, a teacher and teacher-trainer working for International House and King’s College London, about teaching grammar to English language learners.

In the final part of her blog series, Chia Suan Chong looks what she has learnt from her three-year-old about making language memorable.