An EFL Teacher’s Guide

An EFL Teacher's Guide, March 2020, Teaching Resources10/03/2020

Analogies Can Teach Anything

by Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. All educators have long known about testing and pretesting based on using analogies. “Nine is to eighty-one as four…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, March 2020, Teaching Resources09/03/2020

CELTA Driven Tips for ESL Teachers

By Irum Butt

ESL teaching is such a deep ocean that every time you plunge into it, you come out possessing something new. That possession could totally…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, How to Teach, March 2020, Teaching Resources07/03/2020

The Expressive Power of Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them

By Richard McDorman

By Richard E. McDorman Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, March 2020, Teaching Resources06/03/2020

Incorporating the Best-Available Social Network into your Course Design

By Elliot Patton

By: Elliot Patton When I came to Japan to teach at my current university in 2011, the application known as LINE did not yet…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, Exam English, February 202017/01/2020

Which English Test is Best for You?

By Tory Thorkelson

I sometimes tease my students by saying, “Do you TOIEC?” or “Do you TOEFL?” since those are apparently the most popular of the commercial…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, February 202017/01/2020

Learning to Read English

By Emily Argent

Reading is a simple task for most people. But ask them how they learnt to read English, and they have trouble remembering. Here are…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, February 2020, Online Teaching Feature17/01/2020

Automated Essay Evaluation for Faster Formative Feedback

By Nicholas Walker

By Nicholas Walker Many ESL teachers still consider automated essay scoring and feedback to be an impossible dream. But with recent advancements in automated…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, February 202017/01/2020

Unstunting Growth: (Realistic) Professional Development in TEFL

By Kendal Rolley

This article is designed to provide ideas and general guidelines for overseas teachers in our industry who have realized a fundamental truth – counterparts…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, February 2020, How to Teach17/01/2020

Enhancing Performance in B1-B2 exams for Dyslectic Learners

By Maria Argyriou

by Maria Argyriou In general, the performance of adolescent students preparing to sit for B1/ B2 exams is reinforced by the teacher’s methodical planning…

An EFL Teacher's Guide, Exam English, February 202017/01/2020

How to Prepare for Your English Test

By Tory Thorkelson

In my previous article, I discussed a few of the many English tests available online and offline. However, before you register and pay for…

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