ESL Exam Questions and How to Write Them
ESL Exam Questions and How to Write Them I have lost track of the number of times I have heard students complain that the exam was too ‘tough’ or that […]
Moodle Online Classes – My Experience
Moodle Online Classes – My Experience Moodle is a perfect platform to house paid and free courses. Teaching online differs from teaching face-to-face in the traditional classroom. Online courses in […]
E-learning Design Principles
E-learning Design Principles “Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.” -D.H. Lawrence Online teaching and elearning design are fascinating niches for those who like […]
Should I Mind My Own Beeswax?
Should I mind my own Beeswax? WELL, EXCUSE ME! I made the mistake today of commenting on a colleague’s Facebook post, an English teacher from Russia, mentioning that the expression […]
How to Get Students to Speak in Class
How to Get Students to Speak in Class How to get students to speak in class ? Despite Steven Krashen’s famous methodology of language acquisition, in which he claims students […]
Teaching English in China: My Story
Teaching English in China What is it really like teaching Chinese students? What’s it like Teaching English in China? These were questions I had never considered until I went to […]
How Learning a Language Can Benefit Your Teaching
How learning a language can benefit your teaching My major embarrassment as an EFL teacher is not being fluent in another language. However, all that is about to change. I […]
How To Become A Published Author
How to become a published author How to become a published author? You’re an ELT teacher and you’ve been teaching now for a number of years. You feel confident in […]
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach In my previous article for EFLmagazine.com, Taking a Chunk out of Vocabulary: Using Collocations (2015), I examined what collocation is and the benefits of […]
Write Right: Teaching Composition Skills
Teaching composition skills Nine years ago, I found myself having to rediscover how to teach writing to sophomores and higher level students for the first time since I did my […]