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English for Specific Purposes: 9 Things You Must Ask Yourself Every now and then we are faced with the arduous task of teaching ESP. No, not extrasensory perception (ESL teachers are gifted at many things but mind reading is not one of them). ESP stands for ...

Teacher, I Feel So Overwhelmed: Helping Students with Time Management You’ve probably seen them, those students who perhaps remind you of yourself in your first year of college: they come in late. They spend ten minutes trying to organize their materials. Whe ...

How to Use Email Writing in the ESL Classroom The Internet has come a long way and a lot of things have changed – but email has been there right from the start. Far and wide, it has become the medium of communication of choice, which i ...

Addressing Student Individual Needs: (But How do You Even Know What They Are?): Methods to Target Student Areas for Growth It probably hits an ESL teacher several weeks into a semester: ESL students are diverse. This probably seems so much a truism as to be laughable, but we sometimes forget it: even a relatively &ld ...

Online Quizzes: ESL Allies or Waste of Time? In today’s day and age, students can practice almost anything they need to improve their English online. They can read authentic material, listen to real audio, complete a dictation online ...

How Do I Even Do That? Principles of Teaching ESL Online The world is in the midst of a technological revolution the likes of which it hasn’t been seen since the Renaissance: the amount of electronic innovation just over the last five years in ter ...

Taking Time In: 7 Simple Ways to Make Classroom Time Management Work for You Time management is an issue that comes up in all kinds of work environments, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that teachers have to think about time management in their classrooms. In fact, ti ...

Correcting Student Error in Writing and Speech: When, How, and How Much Recently my teenaged daughter was watching as I corrected student papers. “Mom,” she exclaimed. “That’s wrong. It’s ‘she goes to school,’ not ‘she ...

Textbook Too Easy? 8 Things You Can Do to Improve It You can see it in their faces. The textbook is too easy. They breeze through the readings, dialogs and exercises. A task that should take 15 minutes is done in five. What now? Should you change t ...

Banish Boring Grammar: 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Making Grammar Lessons Fun for Your Students Grammar is a keystone in ESL programs everywhere. Learning the rules of language can be exciting and energizing and…well, boring. Grammar teachers around the world struggle to make this te ...

ESL Learning Styles: 9 Ways to Teach Musical Learners They hum to themselves. They tap rhythmically on the desk with their pencils. They love silly rhymes and chants. These learners don’t just like music, they connect to it on every level beca ...

Could You Do Me a Huge Favor--? Building Relations with Teacher Support Staff Teachers tend to think of their most important professional relationships to be with their students, or other teachers, or their administrators—and with good cause. These are the people the ...

ESL Learning Styles: 9 Ways to Teach Interpersonal Learners They’re always talking to each other. They volunteer to help you without even being asked. They ask people lots of questions and are often fascinated by what they have to say. They love pai ...