Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level

Description

Teaching teenagers offers a range of challenges, but also comes with exciting and rewarding opportunities for both teachers and students. Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level explores what it is like to be a teacher of teenagers, delving into the teenage brain to help you get the most out of teenage learners and improve learning outcomes.

It provides creative and advanced teaching techniques, alongside meaningful discussion, accompanying images and practical applications, to help teachers take their teaching practice to the next level. It offers detailed and honest analysis that explores the challenges and opportunities teaching teenagers offers. Questions and challenges are posed throughout to encourage teachers to reflect on their teaching practice and review the evidence.

After having worked through the book and the suggested tasks in it, teachers will be better able to:

• gauge and manage their own reactions to groups of teenage learners;
• focus on the language their learners are producing and help them develop it;
• negotiate desirable codes of behaviour with their students;
• teach effectively in the face of resistance;
• allow their teenage students the right sort of freedoms and autonomy;
• implement a wide range of ‘next-level’ techniques and activities;
• help prepare their learners for exams;
• teach their learners how to write successfully across a number of genres.

“[A] thoughtful, hands-on, and often entertaining book.” – Ana Cecilia Cad, IATEFL YLTSIG

“If you have ever attended a talk by Chris Roland, you will immediately recognise his style. It is a style worth trademarking lest the rest of us imitate it. There is a levity and joy underscored throughout by humility, serious thought and earnest intention. His style has been very successfully transferred to the prose in his latest book, and this makes it an
absolute joy to read.” – Chris Richards, TESOL Spain Reviews, March 2026

“A lively, insightful book… Whether you are struggling to with your teens or you’re an experienced practitioner aiming to move forward your teaching trajectory, this book is a must if you need a thoughtful and entertaining companion on your professional journey.” – Armanda Stroia, IATEFL Voices, Issue 308, January/February 2026

Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level is part of the Teaching English series. Chris Roland is also the author of Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom and Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom,as well as the accompanying online titles. Both these titles offer practical ideas and accessible methodology for teaching teenagers and young learners. Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level offers more advanced analysis, ideas and tools to help you get the most out of your teenage learners.