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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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…
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Teaching with Tunes: 6 Ways to Incorporate Music into Your Classroom
Music is all around us. With each sound that you hear, it is already a component of music. This is why music is deemed…
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Nursery Rhymes Are for Adults Too
by Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Sometimes throughout the English speaking world, and even beyond, we frequently read aloud time-honored nursery rhymes and stories to…
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Fun Christmas English Games For Beginner to Intermediate Learners
Most english teachers are familiar with the 12 Days of Christmas song, this lesson plan uses that Christmas song to create a fun, songful…
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Useful Tips and Resources for Teaching Phrasal Verbs
By Sama Alkhalili Whether you teach ESL in classrooms or privately, you know that phrasal verbs can be a challenge to learn. Not only…
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