Dave Sperling From Dave’s ESL Cafe

Dave Sperling

Dave Sperling is an American educator, technologist, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Dave’s ESL Cafe, one of the most influential online communities in the world of English […]

A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT

TESOL Acronyms

A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT Like any profession or field, the teaching of English has evolved and developed a whole range of acronyms and specialised terms to describe […]

Why Not Teach English through Comics?

Teach English through Comics

Why Not Teach English through Comics? According to Jeff Hughes of the American TESOL Institute, his teachers used to criticize comic books in his youth stating “these books have zero […]

IELTS Tips from Fabiana Traversin

IELTS Tips

IELTS Tips from Fabiana Traversin IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System. It is accepted by the governments in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Interest […]

Teaching the Article to EFL Learners

Teaching the article to efl learners

Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No L1 Articles occur more frequently than any other word in the English language (“Word Frequency Data”). Unfortunately, however, they remain a persistent […]

Teach English with Dvolver

Teach English with Dvolver

Teach English with Dvolver When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop she attended. The website is called […]

Where I Teach in South Korea

Teach in South Korea

Where I Teach in South Korea Where do you teach? A private University in Seoul, South Korea. According to the Complete University Guide, “[there are 43 national and almost 180 […]

Punctuation in ESL – Why It Matters

pronunciation in ESL

Punctuation in ESL – Why It Matters A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese, Polish or […]