Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 25, 2011 Proactive Discipline–Tend to Your Garden (by Eric Kane) Creating a positive learning environment with few discipline problems is a goal of any teacher. We all want to give our young learners the best opportunity to succeed, but sometimes we forget that building... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 22, 2011 The “Reading Pictures” Strategy (By Naomi Ganin-Epstein) It’s Wednesday, 11:00, just a regular day at the high school. Two English teachers are sitting in the teacher’s room marking exams during their “free” period. Every now and then you can hear each... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 17, 2011 Rice in Japan and Rice Around the World (by Bob Middleton) Bringing food topics into the language classroom is one way to stimulate language learning as well as hungry appetites. 9 and 10 year old students in the 5th grade of our elementary school in... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know May 28, 2011 Lexical Chunks for Kids (by Mark Kulek) Mark left a comment on a recent post of mine (How Context Matters) that intrigued me, about using lexical chunks with his young learners. I asked him to expand on his comment in a guest... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know April 30, 2011 Rocco’s Day: A student-generated story activity for literacy practice Though experience and through language we learn. Experience needs language to give it form. Language needs experience to give it content. ~Walter Loban Children learning English as a foreign language tend to develop oral... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know March 22, 2011 Lessons Learned (by Naomi Moir) Like many native English speaking teachers of English, when I started out I’d had no real training in teaching young learners. I’d had training in teaching adults (CELTA) and happened to quite like children... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know March 7, 2011 About mountains, challenges and teaching (by Cecilia Lemos) Do you think “Oh, no! It will take more effort and I’ll be more tired in the end.” or do you see it as a challenge, something that motivates you to reach... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities February 24, 2011 Cat and Mouse: Reinvention of a Traditional Game (by Marco A. Brazil) In the US, they call it Duck Duck Goose. In Bulgaria they call it Pesek, while in Ghana they call it Antokyire. Children across the globe call it many different names, and in the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Technology for Teaching and Learning December 19, 2010 Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 2: Using technology (by Christina Markoulaki) You can read the first part of this posthere. The outline of the presentation with all the links can be found here. Moving on to the second challenge all teachers around the world need... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities December 14, 2010 Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 1: Read-aloud activities (by Christina Markoulaki) Branko M., Assistant Professor of American Literature of the English Department (Faculty of Humanities in Serbia), has been so kind as to give me the opportunity to present in a webinar some of the challenges... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket