Prewriting Activities for EFL Academic-Writing Classes
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Prewriting Activities for 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 […]
Exploring the Trolley Problem in ELT Classes
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Exploring the Trolley Problem in ELT Classes The trolley problem is a concept often used in philosophy and ethics courses. If you haven’t heard of it before, it basically works […]
Tools and Tips to Help Your Students Write an A+ Essay/Research Paper
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Tory S. Thorkelson, M.Ed. More and more students are being asked to write undergraduate papers and yet, even where writing classes are offered, there is never enough time to cover […]
The Path to Pain-Free Speaking Exams
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by Wayne Finley Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d copy and paste from […]
Confessions of a ‘LAZ(Z)Y’ University Professor
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By Tory Thorkelson Early on in my teaching career, I recall a colleague storming into my noisy middle school EFL classroom in Japan and yelling at my co-teacher because our […]
How to Make Conversation Classes More Meaningful for Your Students
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By Tory Thorkelson Just like that book about how Kindergarten teaches you everything important about life, much of what I do and how I do it in the speaking and […]
Where I Teach – Henan Polytechnic University
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by Peter Hughes I teach at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU) in China. It is a beautiful campus, with Lotus flower lakes, rivers with black swans, hidden woods and peaceful parks. […]
Supporting In-Sessional Students in Higher Education
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By Mark Lawrence Context The university where I work, Sheffield University, has a huge number of international students and we offer a lot of support to them on their programmes. […]
Teaching Exam Listening
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Teaching Exam Listening For learners preparing to take Cambridge exams in Italy, listening is notoriously the most difficult skill. This is backed up by their own admissions and the usually-less-than-borderline […]
How to Create Great Materials for Your ESL Classroom
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by Kia DeKou When I first started teaching over 20 years ago, the company I worked for was relatively new and didn’t have any resources to share with us. They […]