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Do Your ESL Students Make These Stress and Intonation Mistakes? Do you have ESL students who do the robot? No, I don’t mean the dance. I mean speak in a monotone, with no color, no feeling. It doesn’t mean that they don’t feel the language. T ...

All By Myself: The Pros and Cons of Teaching One-on-One Lessons Teaching ESL one-on-one can be a beneficial learning experience for the teacher and the student. However, tutoring students one-on-one can be challenging and you want to think carefully about whe ...

7 Fun ESL Games to Practice Pronunciation Let’s all be honest. Pronunciation is one of those things that we don’t often teach explicitly. Of course, we correct our students’ pronunciation when they make mistakes, when t ...

Troubleshooting For Success: 3 Surefire Ways to Expertly Manage Your Classroom Students look to their teachers for direction, tone, and communication. Start off on the right foot and create the best classroom environment possible. Set in motion these 3 surefire troubleshoot ...

What Are Language Learning Styles and How Can You Make Sure Your Students Have Them? Sometimes English as a second language teachers can get overwhelmed by all the acronyms thrown our way: ESL, EFL, TESL, TOEFL, L2, etc. While these may not be that tough to decipher, LLS is a les ...

And the Oscar Goes to... How to Use Movies and TV for Listening Exercises Who doesn't love movies and television? You can tap into both movies and TV for listening exercises that will excite your students and deliver entertaining and effective outcomes. Do some detecti ...

Positively Wonderful: Top 5 Classroom Management Strategies that Really Work Developing classroom management skills will save you time, develop a positive learning environment, and help students succeed. Utilize these top 5 classroom management strategies that really work ...

Why Can't We All Just Interact? 4 Practical Tips for Encouraging a Quiet Class to Speak Have you ever asked a question of your ESL class only to be rewarded with unwavering stares and the sound of crickets in the background? I know I have, and for teachers it can be very frustrating ...

And You Can Quote Him: Backshifting in Reported Speech and What You Need to Know About It If you have been teaching ESL for any length of time, you have probably tried your hand at explaining reported speech. As native speakers, we don’t talk about reported speech very often. Ou ...

Help Your ESL Students Improve Their Listening: 7 Ideas that Really Work It’s no big secret. ESL students won’t get very far if they have weak listening skills. While “practice makes perfect” is a great approach, our students need a lot more gu ...

Classroom Confidence Starts With You: 5 Tips to a Student-Centered Classroom Creating a student-centered classroom will allow your students to blossom, work hard, and develop determined confidence. Follow these 5 tips to build your own confidence in creating a student-cen ...

It's All About Schwa: Introducing the Phonetic Alphabet Deciding how and when to introduce and utilize the International Phonetic Alphabet often has teachers scrambling, but it doesn't have to be stressful or complicated. Follow these tips to introduc ...

5 Easy Listening Games for ESL Beginners ESL beginners may not be able to say a whole lot, after all their vocabulary and grammar are rather limited. But in order to start speaking, they have to start listening. And not just listening t ...