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 –…
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The Benefits of Learning to Read
When I was a child, there was no greater pleasure than getting lost in the pages of a good book. But the love of,…
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9 Creative and Interactive Teaching Resources for ESL Online
Online teaching always seems to be lacking something. Regular exercises and textbooks are boring and mundane because they lack ’real language situations.’ Let’s make…
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How to: Create Computer-Animated Stories in the EFL Classroom
Today In this article you will get knowledge about How to create computer animated stories in the EFL Classroom Creating learning environments that are…
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A Teacher’s Starter Library
A Teacher’s Starter Library: In this day and age, we take the endless sea of useful (and sometimes less than useful) information available on…
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Teaching Strategies for Multi-Level ESL Classes
When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level…
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The Future of English Language Teaching is Liberal Arts
Our disrupted world is poised for more disruption. New technologies have already upended many industries and professions. English language teaching and education more generally…
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TOEFL Teaching: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
Whatever a students’ ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they will not do their…
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Three Classroom Activities to Promote Interactional Competence
Most EFL teachers are probably familiar with the stilted nature of the learner to learner conversational interaction. Low confidence, lack of vocabulary or grammar…
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ColloCaid: Helping with Academic English Collocations
Teachers, editors, proof-readers, or indeed anyone who regularly reviews texts can confirm that many writers struggle when choosing word combinations which sound natural. In…
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