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Embed from Getty Images   Are you looking to create a more fluency-focused curriculum for your ESL/EFL class this fall? Do you seek new, engaging communicative activities to encourage more class discussions? Is teaching English students to ask better questions and create...

Many students have trouble finding their voice, let alone in another language! Here some tips for using English quotations to create classroom discussions.

Prefixes and suffixes are essential to the structure of the English language, and help expand student vocabulary. But how? Let's become word detectives!

“When you look at my pictures you are seeing my life.” ―Douglas Kirkland (1934-), American photographer Photographs capture moments, inform viewers, and start conversations. In last week’s blog post, we discussed how street photography documents moments and events without the...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are they? How can we use photographs as a conversation tool in our English classrooms?

For various reasons, many ESL students are reluctant to speak up in class. How can we better prepare them for American university class discussions?

Discussing stress in the classroom fosters emotionally articulate students and creates compelling conversations. How do you address your students' stress?

Context remains crucial in many English conversations, and phrasal verbs go a long way in establishing context. Let’s talk about "talking" with phrasal verbs!

As both lecturer and master lecturer, respectively, in the Engineering Writing Program and American Language Institute, I have worked with many international engineering students at USC (home of award-winning engineering publication, Illumin). To my knowledge, engineers sometimes...

  “If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen.” – Jacob Trapp (1899-1992), American religious leader   Part 3 of Teacher Edition Tuesday, a weekly series based on ten teaching tips from the recently released Compelling American...