Using Checklists in the Classroom
Using Checklists in the Classroom Explicit teaching is good teaching. The less students have to guess in terms of what they are expected to do, the more brainpower they can […]
Providing Consistent and Robust Input
How to compete with the internet and games. In the world, as we live in today, in which almost every person we have as a student has the chance to […]
CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers
CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers ESL teaching is such a deep ocean that every time you plunge into it, you come out possessing something new. That possession could totally be […]
Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.” (Underhill, 1994 p. 58) Why do […]
The Wonder of Word Lists
by Heidi Brumbaugh, Ph.D. Helping your students to improve their vocabulary is one sure way to advance their language learning. Giving your students word lists to study is a time-honored […]
Teaching Paraphrasing to ESL Writing Students
Teaching Paraphrasing to ESL Writing Students Learning to write academically in English is a huge challenge for second language students. While they must deal with complex syntactical structures and academic […]
Quizlet for Language Teaching
Quizlet for Language Teaching In 2017, I co-wrote an article, Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets, about the basics of using Quizlet to assist students with vocabulary acquisition. Since […]
Learning to Read English
Reading is a simple task for most people. But ask them how they learnt to read English, and they have trouble remembering. Here are some easy steps. Spoken language Practice […]
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 grammar checking technology, and the arrival […]
Flesh the Skeleton
Prelude Flesh the Skeleton may seem to have an anatomical denotation for some readers. However, this terminology which I have coined over the years is deeply rooted in the English […]