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    Cactus TEFL, Planning for a course, Academic: English Language Awareness: why TEFL teachers still need help with grammar

    John Hughes, author of Cactus TEFL’s online courses, looks back at three years of raising English Language awareness and explains why prospective TEFL teachers still request help with their grammar.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Academic: Cactus uses a so-called ‘full immersion’ method of teaching. What are the benefits of this?

    An interview with Jenny Johnson, Cactus Academic Director.

  3. Image of Academic viewpoint: Learning a language through podcasts

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Academic: Academic viewpoint: Learning a language through podcasts

    Director of Studies Augusta Nicol tells us how we can learn a language on the go, and gives us tips on how to get the most out of podcasts.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Academic: How to get past the language plateau

    Director of Studies Augusta Nicol tells us what to do when you hit a plateau in your language learning, based on her own real-life experiences...

  5. Image of Academic Resources: Making the most of your language course

    Academic: Academic Resources: Making the most of your language course

    Director of Studies Augusta Nicol gives us her top 10 tips on how you can make learning a language easier for yourself.

  6. Image of Top tips for getting your company to pay for your training

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Top tips for getting your company to pay for your training

    Improving or learning foreign language skills is beneficial not only on a personal level, but also on a professional one too. Whilst a lot of companies can see the benefit of training in this area, some need a little persuasion when it comes to helping fund it...

  7. Image of Top tips for westerners learning Asian languages

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Top tips for westerners learning Asian languages

    It seems to me that Western languages have a lot of similarities.

  8. Image of Latest trends in language learning

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Latest trends in language learning

    The use of the computers and the internet as a means of learning and practising languages has increased significantly in recent years.

  9. Image of Making progress in learning a language – key points to remember

    Making Progress: Making progress in learning a language – key points to remember

    Sometimes when learning a language you seem to make a lot of progress quite quickly, other times you don’t seem to be making much progress at all, and occasionally people even feel as though they're going backwards! How do you keep making progress?

  10. Image of How do you define fluency?

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: How do you define fluency?

    Many people learning foreign languages hope to become fluent. What is meant by this varies from person to person.

  11. Image of Languages in our schools today

    Attitudes to Language Learning, Academic: Languages in our schools today

    When I was at school in the 1970s and 80s foreign languages were compulsory during the first three years of secondary school and optional after that. I don’t think foreign language instruction was offered at primary level - if it was, it was only available in a small minority of schools.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Language learning phobias

    Learning languages isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, granted.

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