Cubing: Recharging the Power of Brainstorming
“My family had to escape from our country because of it.” My EAP (English for Academic Purposes) class had ‘cubed’ the lesson topic – describing, comparing, analysing, arguing, telling a […]
Teaching the Challenging but Essential Academic Writing Skill of Paraphrasing
By Siqi Song, M.S TESOL Learning to write academically in English is a huge challenge for second language students. While they must deal with complex syntactical structures and academic vocabulary […]
Meditate Your Way to English
A long time ago I realised that empowering my students is my mission. I use various resources to achieve this: inspirational stories, videos, poems, and songs, to name but a […]
Prewriting in EFL Academic Writing Classes
Prewriting in EFL Academic Writing Classes Academic writing is not an easy skill to master, and yet it is the most important skill needed in an academic context (Alexander et […]