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Beyond Martin Luther King Day: Teaching Argument Through the Writings of Martin Luther King

For many instructors, studying the writings of Martin Luther King is confined to the month of January, perhaps to the week leading up to his birthday. In a way, this is good—at least Martin Luther King is actually remembered on the day bearing his name, unlike with some national heroes. But it is also a loss because King was a masterful rhetorician who knew how to use words to move his audience. In ...

Beyond Facebook: How to Use Social Networking Productively in Your ESL Classroom

We’ve all experienced it in the classroom: you turn your back to write on the board. When you turn back, you find the majority of the class has whipped out their laptops, smart phones, and iPads and is busy typing away, oblivious to you or their classmates, in some kind of electronics-induced daze. You try instituting rules such as “Turn off your electronics and keep them off during class,&r ...

Aren't All ESL Students Well-Mannered? Classroom Management for the Adult (and Not So Adult) ESL Student

Often, when I tell other teachers what I do, teach ESL students at the college level, they exclaim, “Oh, that must be great! You don’t have any classroom management issues. Because your students really want to learn.” Well, yes and no. I indeed think it’s a great job. And adult ESL students rarely have classroom management issues like throwing spit wads and shoving each other&mda ...

Keep Them Involved (and Avoid the Zzzz’s): 10 Active Reading Strategies

One of the problems of a reading class is the tendency for students to be passive. Face it, sitting by yourself and reading silently can be really boring, no matter how interesting the piece. And how, after all, does the teacher know most of the time students are actually reading the assigned passage until it comes time for comprehension questions, which may very well be at the end of the class time, de ...

Excuse Me (or Please Move): Teaching Pragmatics in Conversation

Traditionally, ESL instruction has focused on teaching the grammar of the language, with a lot of concentration on the verb tense system. Recently more attention has been given to vocabulary, often divided into categories like “colors” or “animals.” Less attention has been given to pragmatics, or the social use of language, using language in a way appropriate to the context and t ...

The Day of the Big Game: 10 Activities You Can Do for the Super Bowl

There are several sports that are popular in many areas of the world. Football is not one of them. Still, with Super Bowl Sunday coming up on Sunday, February 5, 2012 your students will still have fun with these fun activities that get them thinking and talking about the big game! Try These 10 ESL Activities for the Super Bowl 1 Explain the Game Since most of your students, if not all, have no ...

Teaching English As A Second Language - Why A Dictionary Is Your Best Friend

There are times we are absolutely stunned to see a lack of dictionaries being used to teach English as a second language. For us, a dictionary is the core of any teaching program and needs to be used and abused until the pages begin to fall out and a new one is needed. It is the basic building block of any language course and the first thing that a student should be taught is how to use one. When the t ...

10 Language Activities that Can Make Everyday Better

In today’s world, innovation is king. People everywhere are continually making things better, faster, smaller and easier whether their products are computers or refrigerators. King Gillette was one such person whose idea to make a disposable razor blade changed the industry. Following in his footsteps, challenge your students to invent something that will make everyday better with this step by ste ...