What is my IELTS innovation?

Posted on 20/05/2025 by alexcase

I’m thinking about applying for the IELTS Morgan Terry Memorial IATEFL Scholarship*, as it’s for innovation in IELTS and I’m sure I must have managed an innovation or two in over 1000 pages of photocopiables and 29 articles on IELTS. However, not having read a teacher’s book since halfway through my CELTA 30 years ago, I have no idea how anyone else is teaching IELTS and so not sure how the way I have come up with for my students might be different. Possible candidates:

– extremely detailed analyses of official practice tests and materials based on those analyses, so students get representative preparation and practice

– games which are intensive practice of vital language and/ or tactics for IELTS, not just warmers

– pronunciation practice which is closely tied to how students really need it to understand the listening and speaking questions, but which also give them an introduction to what they could cover in their pronunciation and listening practice more generally

– pairwork for IELTS prep that is usually done alone, as much as possible in ways which are both more motivating and more useful

Any idea which of those might be innovative and/ or impressive? Or any other possibilities? Or perhaps an innovation I can make in the next two weeks??

*Thanks to the person who shared a link to the scholarship on LinkedIn – sorry forgot to make a note of who it was

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2 Responses to What is my IELTS innovation?

  1. Deepa Kilambi's avatar Deepa Kilambi says:
    20/05/2025 at 23:45

    -I don’t think you should bother with a detailed analysis and practice. There are plenty of institutions that do this and a whole lot of practice stuff on the net, for what it is worth

    -Similarly, pronunciation is the last thing in terms of priority in the training that I do. All that’s needed is for students to listen more to the kind of exercises that they will have to tackle in the exam. Again, available on the net.

    -Ditto, for intense practice of vital language. There’s so much on the net. But tactics is a good option. After all that’s what students need to crack exams, don’t they?

    -And pair work for prep that’s both motivating and useful would be good too. Nothing like two heads to work out difficulties and encourage each other.

    I do hope this helps.

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