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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms: November 2010

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms. Sunday, November 14, 2010. TOEFL, TOEIC, and jobs « Readable Blog. Shall we discuss how to effectively challenge the tyranny of ETS standardized exams? May I strongly recommend reading this earnest critique by Clarissa, a frustrated English teacher who has taught TOEIC and TOEFL and prominent ESL blogger for many years? TOEFL, TOEIC, and jobs « Readable Blog. Isn't that asking for far too much? Further, I'm not sure that we can wish away either the TOE...

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms: What Qualities Do Adult English Language Learners Want in a Teacher?

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms. Sunday, February 14, 2010. What Qualities Do Adult English Language Learners Want in a Teacher? What makes a great English teacher? Children and Adults apparently disagree. Marisa Constantinides, a prominent EFL teacher and blogger, wrote a fascinating article that explores this issue in a fascinating post. Here it is. While I have no experience teaching young child, the survey confirms my perceptions about the educational desires of adult students&#46...

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms: What Do Your ESL Students Believe? Find Out!

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms. Friday, September 18, 2009. What Do Your ESL Students Believe? Why Bring ‘This I Believe’ Essays and Podcasts Into Your English Classroom? What are your core beliefs? More importantly, what are the core beliefs of your English students? How do you know? Do you like listening to quality radio essays to improve listening skills and critical thinking skills? While the 1950s version sought out short personal essays by leading intellectuals, artists, and pr...

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Six favourite things I wrote for Onestopenglish | Six Things

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A Miscellany of English Language Teaching. Six favourite things I wrote for Onestopenglish. As many of you know, I got started really on my writing career with Onestopenglish. 8211; Macmillan’s resource site for teachers. As I went rummaging through my old folders the other day to prepare for this post I found lesson plans that went back as far as 2002! Long Anyway, when I heard that Onestopenglish was launching its (much needed) redesign (read about the details here. 1 A Metaphor lesson. To get the audio.

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Six people Darren Elliott would like to meet (and the questions he’d ask them) | Six Things

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A Miscellany of English Language Teaching. Six people Darren Elliott would like to meet (and the questions he’d ask them). Well, I have to admit I have been a bit naughty recently and not updated this blog, and with so little time left! Anyway, as promised I do have some more guest posts. This is a really nice one from Darren Elliott, a teacher based in Japan and owner of the Lives of Teachers. Here are six more people he’d like to meet. Darren, over to you…. I would like to ask him how NOVA got so big, ...

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Six Things » Blog Archive » Six activities with camcorders

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A Miscellany of English Language Teaching. Laquo; Six favourite items of stationery. Six despised bits of grammar. Six activities with camcorders. Recently I acquired a new video camcorder. It’s a Flip Mino. 1 Film a local attraction, and annotate it. Youtube=http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? 2 Make a video message with cards and music. I got this idea from a video I saw in a workshop by Melania Paduraru. The video was of kids showing cards with messages on them (can’t find it again now! So there you go....

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms: August 2009

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms. Sunday, August 30, 2009. Sound Comparisons: What is the correct way to say this in English? How do you say that again? What is a sound comparison? English teachers and linguists might also find website www.soundcomparisions.com. Some accents, for this American listener, require significant effort to understand. All dialects, however, successfully function within their local areas. Of course, context matters. If international students plan to study ...

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms: October 2010

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Creating Compelling Conversations in ESL Classrooms. Friday, October 8, 2010. Looking for Quality, Free Conversation Lessons for Your Advanced ESL or EFL Class? Are you looking for quality, free conversation materials for your advanced English class? Do you teach ESL to adult or community college students? Or do you teach English as a Foreign language (EFL) thousands of miles from home? And do you sometimes tutor private students to improve their conversation skills? Enjoy these five free sample chapters.

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A Miscellany of English Language Teaching. I am a teacher, teacher trainer and author. I write books and materials for English language learners and teachers. My work takes me to interesting places all over the world, which is one of the reasons I’ve started blogging. I’m also interested in lists. To find out more about my work, including writing and awards, click here. I have also included a page detailing my upcoming talks and stuff. It is here. On December 12th, 2008. Who’s behind this? Teacher Reboot...

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Six Things » Blog Archive » Six ways to subvert tests

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A Miscellany of English Language Teaching. Laquo; Six favourite five minute activities (that aren't really five minutes). Six ways to subvert tests. I argued they could be… but that’s another discussion! However, I do feel that tests – many tests at least – are torture. And when I think about all the things we do in class: encouraging pairwork, comparing answers, using dictionaries etc it all can come apart when test time comes. What can the teacher do to counter this? 1 Open book/web test. Assign your t...