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Introduction Advancements in technology have led to the use of more sophisticated and versatile tools in various fields including language education. In line with this, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence have certain benefits in language teaching settings based on the studies done in the field (Lai & Bower, 2019). These benefits range from motivatingContinue reading “Harnessing Emerging Technologies: A Guide for Language Teachers to Enhance Classroom Learning”

Despite being a relatively new concept in ELT, the use of linguistic landscapes has far-reaching effects on the language learning process in that they are authentic materials and tools for linking the classroom with the real world. Keeping this in mind, as English teachers, being aware of the benefits and the use of this resourceContinue reading “Incorporation of Linguistic Landscapes in ELT”

Recently, in English language teaching, the idea of teaching culture and raising (inter)cultural awareness/competence has gained importance. For that reason, terms such as sociolinguistics competence, and intercultural communicative competence proposed by Byram (1997) are used frequently in EFL/ESL settings. As the title suggests, in this article I will briefly mention what culture is and itsContinue reading “The Ways of Raising (Inter)Cultural Awareness in EFL/ESL Settings”

Introduction As English teachers or teachers-to-be, whenever we use the mother tongue (L1) during our classes, a sense of guilt comes up. This is because of the “Monolingual Approaches” to language teaching. Let’s start by digging more into this concept. Monolingual means that only one language is used in the class. We can encounter thisContinue reading “The Use of L1 in EFL/ESL Classes”

Author: Eylül Karabulut, senior ELT student and private tutor. Teaching a language has been greatly changed with the advance of the communicative approaches. Thus, the aim of teaching a language has shifted to what is called information exchange, strategies to communicate (strategic competence), knowledge on how to use the language based on a certain contextContinue reading “On how to make your English classes more communicative”