How to Write an IELTS Essay – Tips from an ESL Teacher

How to Write an IELTS Essay – Tips from an ESL Teacher: As an ESL teacher, I have coached hundreds of students and working professionals who aspired to study or […]
How to Teach English as a Foreign Language

How to teach English as a foreign language Are you looking Advice on how to teach English as a foreign language? EFL Magazine recently posed a challenge of writing ’10 […]
Cuisenaire Rod Activities for Language Teaching, Part 1

Cuisenaire Rod Activities for Language Teaching, Part 1 After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided to […]
Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them

Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works […]
Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT

Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT Tiptoeing through the minefield of international business communication in itself is already stressful enough, as speaking another language is not merely about learning […]
Which English Test is Best for You?

Which English Test is Best for You? I sometimes tease my students by saying, “Do you TOEIC?” or “Do you TOEFL?” since those are apparently the most popular of the […]
Online English Teaching and Uberfication

Online English Teaching and Uberfication Learning with computers is nothing new as they have been used in language teaching since the 1980s, if not longer in specialist language areas. The […]
ESL Teacher Observation and Reflective Practice in Teaching

ESL Teacher Observation and Reflective Practice in Teaching A few years ago Dr. Thomas Farrell gave a plenary talk at the KOTESOL International Conference. Among the many wonderful parts of […]
TOEFL Listening Tips for Teachers and Students

TOEFL Listening Tips for Teachers and Students You’re stuck. And, you can’t seem to improve your TOEFL Listening test scores. On top of all that,you have read the books, and […]
TOEFL Reading Tips for Teachers and Students

TOEFL Reading Tips for Teachers and Students It’s no secret that intermediate and advanced English Language Learners struggle to improve their proficiency. When an individual continues to put in the […]