Jane Willis: award winning writer, speaker and consultant on English language teaching
Task-Based Learning – What kind of adventure?
published in The Language Teacher, 2005

This short paper looks at ways of designing tasks and suggests a framework for lesson planning to implement them effectively in class

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From Challenges of the Past to Waves of the Future

presented at the 20th APPI Conference 2006
published in ‘In English’ The British Council magazine for Teachers of English in Portugal, Winter 2006

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Activity-based Language Learning at Primary Level

report of presentation at the Al Ain Nord Anglia E2L Project Event, 13 December 2006
This paper, written with the less confident English teacher in mind, expands on some of the principles behind activity-based learning in the English classroom and summarises activities that can be done with young learners. It then goes on to outline ways in which new teachers and non-native speaker teachers can develop their own classroom language and interactive skills.

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