I still remember the fear when I decided I have to change the way I’m teaching English! What if I make a fool of myself? What if I become a laughing stock in the school and in front of the parents?

Finally I had the guts to make the changes in 1986 and have never had any regrets about them. This site is about sharing those experiences and about the things I have learnt in training teachers over a period of 40 years.

Read more about the purpose of the site in the main menu articles ‘Me and my aims’ and ‘My history as a learner and teacher of English’

Now that I think back to my own years in learning English in the 1970s, it is no wonder I found them rather useless and boring. Still, I started my career applying mostly the same principles that my own teacher had been using because I knew of nothing better.

I hated my own lessons. I wanted to change something in my lessons but had no idea what to do and how to accomplish the changes. Luckily, the communicative language teaching (CLT) methods were introduced in our in-service training in the early 1980s. And I gradually began to realize what had to be done …

Do you think you would like to …

• refresh the procedures in your class and have harmony in class
• make it truly possible for your students to communicate with the language you are teaching
• check if I have anything new to offer you. Now all articles under each topic area are free to give you a perspective to my ideas.
• have practical tips in all language skill areas and learn how to apply them

Welcome to my site! I believe I can help you to reach the aims above. If you want to refresh your ideas about communicative language teaching (CLT) and move on towards more student-oriented lessons, you will most likely find my articles useful. I am a teacher of English but the principles apply to any foreign languages. Even to some other subjects.