Automated Essay Evaluation for Faster Formative Feedback
By Nicholas Walker Many ESL teachers still consider automated essay scoring and feedback to be an impossible dream. But with recent advancements in automated…
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The Secret Ingredient for Fluent Speaking and Writing: Self Confidence
By Jeanne Bourne Teachers can add a cup of grammar and two cups of vocabulary along with a teaspoon of syntax and a pinch…
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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…
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Punctuation without Tears
Author: Dominic SelwoodPublished by Corax ISBN: 978-0-9926332-9-5Review by Steve Hirschhorn Perhaps James Joyce might have read this little book and saved us all the…
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There’s nothing like a Royal ‘Visit’
by Peter Read How often is it that, as a TEFL teacher, one is faced with a classroom of otherwise polite, enthusiastic students, small…
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Beware the Costly Comma – A Short Guide to Comma Use
By Peter Read Those of us who teach English as a foreign language are only too well aware of the need to stretch our…
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Interview with Nicholas Walker
By Sharyn Collins Hello, Nicholas, could you tell me about your background and how you got into EFL? I’m English, but I was born…
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The ‘Proper’ Use(s) of Journals
by Tory Thorkelson Now that I have your attention, I would like to share some thoughts and my experience with using journals in my…
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“Comma knowledge”: Some points about punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese,…
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The Wiki as a Collaborative Tool: why to use it, how to use it
By Rita Zeinstejer A wiki can be described as a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit, delete or…
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