Teaching English in North Macedonia with The Peace Corps

Teaching English in North Macedonia with The Peace Corps Being a Peace Corps volunteer in North Macedonia and working in the education sector has been a one-of-a-kind, transformative experience. The Peace […]
Lesson Planning for ESL – A Quick Primer

Lesson Planning for ESL – A Quick Primer Making a lesson plan for teaching English is a major part of the job of teaching. Sometimes, it’s creative joy, and sometimes, […]
Using a Wiki for Classroom Teaching

Wiki for Classroom Teaching A wiki can be described as a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit, delete or modify Web page content using […]
Teaching ESL on Zoom – 3 Underused Features

Teaching ESL on Zoom – 3 Underused Features The internet abounds with stories of teachers moving their lessons online; they reflect on their experiences, and then they write about them. […]
ESL Writing Activities – Some Tips for the Teacher

ESL Writing Activities – Some Tips for the Teacher Even with the most imaginative class preparation or the latest technology, teachers and students are often left with a barrage of […]
Presentation Ideas for ESL Students

Presentation Ideas for ESL Students Imagine a student standing in front of the class delivering a presentation. The student looks out and sees students playing on their smart phones, chatting, […]
Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching

Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching South Korea has become a hub for EFL in the past 20 or so years. Despite recent indications that this pulsating industry is on […]
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 […]
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 […]