Category Archives: Tips for Language Teachers

The best tool to develop students’ foreign language speaking skills

What is the best tool to develop speaking skills in the foreign language classroom? These [...]

Tips and tricks to build your students’ vocabulary more effectively

Learning the most common words in a foreign language is key to fluency. Here're some [...]

7 strategies to increase motivation in your language learners

Getting your students motivated and engaged to learn a language is critical for success. Discover [...]

Top 5 language teaching books – tips for language teachers

Here are Sanako's recommended top 5 books for language teachers. Discover top teaching strategies and [...]

7 challenges facing language educators everywhere

What are the challenges for language educators in today’s schools? We surveyed language teachers and [...]

8 reasons why teachers should use the communicative language teaching

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is an effective method. Learn why we think most language teachers [...]

Language skills assessments: Formative and Summative assessment

How to assess language learning in the course of your regular classroom teaching with summative [...]

6 tips to help students expand their second language vocabulary

What are the six best techniques to help your language students learn new second language [...]

How to teach pronunciation so your students sound like a native!

Learning to pronounce foreign words and sound like a native speaker is hard. Here are [...]

How to use language levels to boost students’ learning outcomes?

What are language levels? It's important to know your students' language levels. Learn how to [...]