How do you close your last class in a satisfying, summer ESL program?
July 26, 2008
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Class bookends, both beginnings and endings, deserve special attention. This truism becomes more important in short term summer English programs where ESL students have traveled…
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Teaching English Language Learners: What Seems to Work in American Public Schools
July 21, 2008
Eric Roth newBlog
Do English language learners, or English as a Second language students, learn better in sheltered programs? Should students receive some instruction in their native language…
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Does Uncle Sam want immigrants to learn English?
July 18, 2008
Eric Roth newBlog
Yet funding for English language classes, especially for adults, remains quite limited. Government programs only help students learn rather basic English, often around 1200 essential…
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Teaching Quotations Creates Lively ESL Classroom Discussions, Shares Insights
July 6, 2008
Eric Roth newBlog
Why do you recommend using classic quotations in ESL classrooms? “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…it expects what never was and never…
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Enjoying Easy English Times and Exploring the EET Website
July 2, 2008
Eric Roth newBlog
“In every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson (1907-1964), biologist and environmentalist The mailman brought…
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Have You Read English Teaching Forum Yet?
June 27, 2008
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Have you read English Teaching Forum magazine yet? It is another outstanding resource for English language teachers whether working with adults in Africa, Eastern Europe,…
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Learning by Stumbling (again) and finding Classroom 2.0
June 19, 2008
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As readers of this blog will soon discover, I believe in experimenting and finding new resources. Following an emailed lead, I discovered an impressive website…
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What are the 1000 most common words in English?
June 19, 2008
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Sometimes students ask simple, direct questions that I can’t immediately answer. For instance, an ESL student wondered, “What are the 1000 most common words in…
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TaLKing in English, Talking about English, and Learning Korean
June 16, 2008
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Sometimes we confuse talking about English with talking in English. As English teachers, we need to gently encourage our students to talk as much as…
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English Language Teaching Tip #12: Ask a Question While Taking Attendance
June 15, 2008
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Make a bureaucratic procedure more engaging by asking questions “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” -Thomas Berger (1924-2014)…
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