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By S.V.Richard Learning another language can be a lot of fun. Classroom assignments are important to help students use...

Classroom assignments

By S.V.Richard Although I am a certified special educator, I taught ESL for a year and ESL inclusion for...

Successful Strategies

All parents want their children to learn and improve, stay ahead of their peers, and achieve certain goals in...

Pushy or not pushy?

Author Bio: Cristin Howard runs Smart Parent Advice, a site that provides parenting advice for moms and dads. Cristin...

Benefits of Free Play

The web contains many hundreds of millions of pages, including everything from rigorous research to trivia and misinformation. The...

Evaluation of web resources

In a collaborative or co-teaching setting, the ESL teacher “pushes into” the general education classroom to collaborate with the...

Collaborative Teaching

Thinking Skills and English language learners English language learners should be asked critical thinking questions from all levels of...

Bloom taxonomy

Writing is the most difficult language skill for English language learners (ELLs)  to master. While teaching, you should be...

Teaching tips for writing

Course Planning (part 5) *Gathering feedback from your students using an online, free and customizable survey tool We know...

Course Planning 4

Course Planning (part 4) *Planning your course to help students acquire the thinking skills of the discipline The nature...

Course Planning 3

Course Planning (part 3) *Getting students to read and have ownership over the syllabus I have often heard faculty...

Course Planning 2

Course Planning (part 2) *Planning for the functions of content coverage in your courses Currently many faculty see the...

Course planning 1

Course Planning Planning for next round of teaching - What big picture ideas do you want your students to...

Course planning

Test question types Richard Frost, British Council, Turkey In my previous article Test writing I looked at some of...

Types of tests

If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed...

Test Writing

The reading material consists of bubbles, short dialogues, longer conversations, passages of various lengths, leaflets, brochures, timetables, menus, tickets,...

Reading

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