This is one of my favourite ways of looking at aspects of TEFL that we might take for granted – look at both how to exploit the advantages of it and combat any possible weak points. For example, I bet your CELTA tutor never told you there are many potential drawbacks to eliciting…

The advantages and disadvantages of authentic texts

The advantages and disadvantages of eliciting

The advantages and disadvantages of blind observations

Having said that it is one of my favourites, I now realise that I have only written three. Feel free to beat me to the many other topics that could be written about that way…