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 […]
Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners with AR
Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners Curiosity is the crucial element in our DNA which drives us to explore and learn. From ancient times until now, we, as human beings have […]
Creativity on Call: Empowering Learners’ Autonomy
By Vasiliki Have you ever realized that some amazing things have happened completely unintentionally during our teaching practice, so spontaneously but yet so effectively that we can’t help thinking why […]
Book Review: Creative Output, Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writing
Creative Output, Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writing This book of just over 130 pages starts with a clear and concise theoretical underpinning and follows up with a broad variety […]
Writing Creatively to Learn Adverbs
Writing Creatively to Learn Adverbs When it comes to grammar instruction, teachers often struggle with these questions: Do I teach my students the grammar rules explicitly and give them worksheets […]
Teaching Academic Writing in The Blended Classroom
Teaching Academic Writing in The Blended Classroom Hybrid learning is great but… I’ve been teaching academic writing to high-intermediate and advanced ESL students at a francophone college in Québec, Canada […]
Adapting Textbooks for EFL Students
Course books are the mainstay of any course of English language study, providing the essential grounding in areas such as the four skills, vocabulary, grammar and learner training. However, coursebooks […]
Teaching the Writing Process
Teaching the Writing Process When you read a piece of good writing in The Economist, Folha de São Paulo or The New Yorker, you will probably wonder about the special […]
How to Get Students to Speak in Class
How to Get Students to Speak in Class How to get students to speak in class ? Despite Steven Krashen’s famous methodology of language acquisition, in which he claims students […]