Decoding the IELTS and TOEFL Essay Rubrics
IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics As teachers, it is helpful to use IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics to guide our students to get top…
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How to Activate Your Classes with Drama
Many teachers are well aware of techniques like dialogues or roleplaying as standard parts of many textbooks for teaching ESL/EFL conversation, for example. However,…
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Five Icebreaker Activities for EFL Students
At the beginning of a course, students are often meeting each other for the very first time. Therefore, it’s advisable to use icebreakers or…
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5 Activities for Learning Names
When you start teaching a new group of students, it’s important to begin learning their names right away. As Lang (2020) puts it, “learning…
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10 Strategies for Building Rapport with Students
Let’s look at 10 strategies for building rapport with your students. Remember their names. Sometimes we think the most magical words a student can…
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Taking Language Learning Outside the Classroom
As digital natives, students demand innovative ways to learn outside of classical modes of learning. The use of smartphones for English language instruction has…
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Ten Tips for New EFL Teachers in a University Setting
This article on Ten Tips for New EFL Teachers in a University Setting is written for teachers who have just begun teaching EFL classes…
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Cubing: Recharging the Power of Brainstorming
“My family had to escape from our country because of it.” My EAP (English for Academic Purposes) class had ‘cubed’ the lesson topic –…
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Making the Most Out of Your Coursebooks
The role of coursebooks in EFL is a topic of some controversy. For many, language books form the backbone of their curriculums, and some…
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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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