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How to Teach Argumentative Essay Writing

Whether your students are preparing to take standardized tests or you are walking them through how to write an essay, the Persuasive or Argument Essay is a standard strategy to cover. When the purpose in writing is to persuade another of your opinion, using the correct logic and following the correct layout are very important, and your arguments, if not written clearly and with support, will fall flat. ...

Teaching U.S. Academic Values in the Classroom (Yes, You Must Come to Class, but that is Not Enough)

In every institution of learning, there is the explicit, stated curriculum: it may even be part of the institution’s mission statement of student handbook: for example, “to teach the English necessary to succeed in the workplace and institutions of higher learning.” However, there is also what is sometimes called the “hidden curriculum”: what gets taught without being inclu ...

10 Great Sources for Real Listening Practice: Part Two

Giving your students realistic materials for listening practice is a challenge for everyone involved. As teachers, sometimes we do not know where to start when it comes to listening materials, and for students the challenge is in understanding what they hear. 10 Great Sources for Real Listening Practice: Part One gave six materials you can use in your classroom to teach listening practice. They started ...

10 Great Sources for Real Listening Practice: Part One

As language teachers, we know that it is important for our students to practice their listening skills. In fact, it is often the most important aspect of language study for international students who come to U.S. English programs. More often than not, their experience has been limited to reading and writing, and even intermediate and advanced students may have the oral/aural levels of beginners. Exposin ...

Good Luck and Bad: Secure the Former With These ESL Activities

You spill coffee on your shirt getting ready in the morning. You miss your bus and then realize you have forgotten your lesson plans when you finally get to school. Not only that, it is class picture day and your hair refuses to behave. Sounds like you may have hit a spell of bad luck. However, whether it is because you walked under a ladder or just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, your day can sti ...

Why Tell a Story? The Academic Value of the Narrative Form

Often in staff meetings for composition classes I have taught, instructors will decry a possible composition topic as “too narrative”: that is, by its nature of asking students to tell about an event such as a formative early experience, it is likely to draw on grammar, vocabulary, and organizational structures that are personal and anecdotal and nonacademic. However, there is a lot of value ...

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 ...