This weekend I went to the annual NNETESOL (Northern New England TESOL) conference, which is always full of great workshops to choose from. The keynote speaker talked about growth mindset, a topic that is such an important factor in learning a language. One workshop shared instant scratch quizzes and their benefits and rewards to teaching…
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Keeping pace in teaching ESL students Keeping pace during your ESL lesson is an art that takes both practice and experience. Ever been in a classroom or workshop where the time seemed to drip slowly like molasses? What about a completely opposite experience – you didn’t even look at the clock and boom – it
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How to teach the sounds and letters of English to older English learners I don’t remember much of phonemic awareness or phonics instruction when I first started learning English. It may be that it was a while ago (ahem) and my memory no longer stretches that far. But it may also be that when you
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Every teacher needs a few tricks up their sleeve and a good icebreaker activity is certainly one of them. Whether it’s the beginning of a school year with a new group of students, a new student joins you mid-year, or any other occasion – such as you need to prepare the class for teamwork –
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5 tips that will help you teach speaking successfully Whether you are teaching an actual English conversation class or you integrate speaking activities in your everyday curriculum, how to actually teach speaking may still be a daunting task for you. We speak for different purposes: to persuade, to inform, to demonstrate or to entertain. Just
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Subject-verb agreement is one of those things: if you don’t use it correctly, it may appear that you don’t know English. How many times have you heard your students say something like this: “People in my class thinks that our teacher is cool” or “John and Mary is at the mall right now”? Yes, my friends,
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