Practical guides on teaching English, AI in the classroom, IELTS prep and building a career abroad.
Interlanguage is the developing language system a learner builds while acquiring a second language, separate from both their first language and the target language and governed by rules of its own. Larry Selinker named it in 1972, reframing learner errors as evidence of a grammar in progress.
The affective filter is a hypothesised emotional barrier that stops language input from being absorbed. Proposed by Stephen Krashen in 1982, it holds that anxiety, low motivation and low self-confidence raise the filter, so a learner hears comprehensible English without acquiring it.
TEFL teaching methods are the overall frameworks that shape how a language course is taught, such as communicative language teaching, task-based learning and the lexical approach, while classroom techniques are the specific moves a teacher makes inside a lesson, such as scaffolding, drilling and eliciting. This glossary defines the twenty terms that recur most often in TEFL training and classroom observation.
Build lesson slides with AI without handing over the teaching. Set the goal, give the tool context, then rewrite every slide for your own learners.
A workflow for adapting a reading text to several levels with AI, and the accuracy, copyright and reading load checks a teacher still has to make.
Which parts of an ESL lesson plan AI can draft well, and which parts depend on knowing the class in front of you and cannot be handed over.
Turning English course goals into a first unit map with AI, plus the standards, sequencing, assessment and timetable checks it cannot make for you.
Diffit for Teachers: Uses, Limits and ESL Alternatives Diffit for teachers is an AI materials tool that can turn a […]
AI Rubric Generator for English Classes: A Teacher’s Guide An AI rubric generator can draft criteria, performance descriptions and feedback […]
AI Writing Feedback for English Learners: What to Trust AI writing feedback can quickly flag patterns in grammar, vocabulary and […]
How to judge AI tools by the English teaching bottleneck they actually solve, and how to pilot one workflow before paying for anything.
What Diffit is, how it works, what it costs, and whether a general K-12 differentiation tool suits a CEFR-based ESL classroom. With a CEFR-native alternative compared.
Turn a source text or vocabulary list into usable ESL practice materials with AI, then check level, accuracy, answer keys, bias and copyright.
