Using Negotiation Role Plays in the English Classroom
Dale Coulter and David Wilson list and describe the five essential characteristics of a successful negotiation role play Roleplay has always been a particularly…
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Teach Your Students to Remember English
By: Jonty Yamisha Breaking Down Steps for Efficient Memorization Memorization isn’t a mysterious practice. One student who can memorize a poem doesn’t necessarily have…
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Analogies Can Teach Anything
by Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. All educators have long known about testing and pretesting based on using analogies. “Nine is to eighty-one as four…
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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…
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CELTA-Driven 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…
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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.”…
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The Expressive Power of Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them
By Richard E. McDorman Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works…
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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…
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Incorporating the Best-Available Social Network into your Course Design
By: Elliot Patton When I came to Japan to teach at my current university in 2011, the application known as LINE did not yet…
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Teaching the Challenging but Essential Academic Writing Skill of Paraphrasing
By Siqi Song, M.S TESOL Learning to write academically in English is a huge challenge for second language students. While they must deal with…
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