The Post Pandemic Student
Like many others, I was looking forward to the return to face-to-face classes after COVID 19 had peaked and most of us were vaccinated….
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A Teacher’s Starter Library
A Teacher’s Starter Library: In this day and age, we take the endless sea of useful (and sometimes less than useful) information available on…
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Extralocal! Extralocal! Read All About It!
No, you did not misread the title. I can hear you now. You are asking yourself, “Should the phrase not be ‘Extra! Extra! Read…
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Teaching Strategies for Multi-Level ESL Classes
When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level…
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6 Tips for Teaching TOEFL Online 2022
During a panel discussion included in EFL Magazine’s TOEFL Training Summit last week, participants were asked about possible gaps in the TOEFL training market…
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The Future of English Language Teaching is Liberal Arts
Our disrupted world is poised for more disruption. New technologies have already upended many industries and professions. English language teaching and education more generally…
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TOEFL Teaching: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
Whatever a student’s ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they will not do their…
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A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT
Acronyms in ELT : What they mean and where and how they are used. Like any profession or field, the teaching of English has evolved…
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Three Classroom Activities to Promote Interactional Competence
Most EFL teachers are probably familiar with the stilted nature of the learner to learner conversational interaction. Low confidence, lack of vocabulary or grammar…
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5 Ways to Teach through Laughter
Today we talk about 5 Ways to Teach through Laughter. I cringed at what the teacher had done: laughed at a student. It’s fun…
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