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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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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4 Ways to Decolonize Your English Classes
In today’s world, it’s hard to deny that the ability to speak English can offer students real professional and academic advantages. However, English education…
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5 Things That Caught Me Off Guard While Teaching in Rural Japan
Teaching in Rural Japan: I lived in Japan for seven years until November 2019 where I started off working in a fishing village as…
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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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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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Cambridge University Press: Dedicated Teacher Award
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has awarded its 2021 Dedicated Teacher Award to Annamma Lucy, a social studies…
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Constructivist Theory, Connection and Rubrics
Teachers are “vehicles of power”. Teachers must provide circumstances for students to accomplish empowerment. It is only possible when we as teachers take a…
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How to Launch and Run English Schools in Japan
How to Successfully Launch and Run English Schools in Japan with Ian Simpson In this episode, Ian Simpson tells us how to successfully launch…
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