English teacher explaining TEFL teaching methods and classroom techniques to a language class
Teaching Methods & Techniques

TEFL Teaching Methods & Classroom Techniques: A Teacher’s Glossary

TEFL teaching methods are the overall frameworks that shape how a language course is taught — communicative language teaching, task-based learning, 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.