Resources for English Teachers
Blogging is a great tool for English language classes and it has a number of advantages:
– Blogging rises sense of community in a classroom.
– It involves process writing approach.
– It encourages students to be active outside of the classroom.
– It is an online portfolio of students works.
– It can be described as online journals as peers of students can also read and comment on them.
– Students
OnestopEnglish is a popular website with thousands of resources including lesson plans, worksheets etc. All the materials can be found in different levels from Elementary to Advanced. I love these plans because all the articles come from Guardian Weekly. There are provoking, engaging and authentic materials and along with the texts you can find comprehension questions, vocabulary check and discussion points. These plans are for
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Approach is described as “theories about the nature of language and language learning that serve as the source of practices and principles in language teaching” (Richards and Rodgers, 1986, p.16). However, none of the approaches can be referred as “the best” since they are quite prescriptive and lack of flexibility. Thus teachers should learn each one of them in details and decide which one fits well into the context they work. They can benefit from various approaches by employing different
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Today I want to write a little bit about course books and how they’ve changed over the last 30 years. And when I was at school, language learning materials were often quite dated, not particularly colorful, and often rather uninspiring. And the situation now is completely different when it comes to global course books for learning English as a foreign language. We’ve got so much choice available to us and course books are extremely attractive in their appearance. They
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Studies have shown that the average English native speaker knows about 20,000 words with university-educated people knowing around 40,000 words. When actually speaking and with everyday writing (emails, letters, notes etc.) this goes down to about 5,000 very common words that are used repeatedly. The Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts (Hu and Nation, 2000) for a learner to get by in
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Technology is clearly bringing expanded opportunities to learners both within and beyond the boundaries of our language classrooms. Technology enhanced language learning is an effective way of increasing knowledge in teaching and learning. That’s why; I’m trying to integrate technology in/out of the classroom as much as possible. I definitely benefit from technology in different aspects of learning and teaching. Websites written below are the part of my effort on this issue. Through these websites, students are more attentive and
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Frequently, lectures come straight out of textbooks and/or lecture notes, giving students little incentive to attend class
Eric Mazur (2012)
Hypersay is a website which can be used to make presentations more engaging and interactive through live mode with participants. The website change the way we present in the classroom.
Traditional PowerPoint presentations are mostly delivered as a monologue to disengaged students. The setting is usually “a combination of long lectures and demonstrations
Students can be encouraged to write about things by creating class newspaper. It can promote collaboration and increase students’ engagement, and motivation.
This year, I will start this project in my school. According to the project, every class is expected to publish a newspaper monthly. All the students will be participating in the process. The newspaper is divided into sections which will be shared between students. Some sections may require hard work such as research and interview. However, it would
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I participated in a workshop of Paul Seligson ,the writer of English File, last year. The workshop was about how to use texts in coursebooks effectively in classes. I took some notes which may give you ideas about the usage of texts during class time.
Here is the list of suggestions for you;
It’s been quite much time since I shared my last post due to my schedule at work. In this post, I’ll share my favourite post reading activities. As you know, readers are pretty important for language learners. However, at the end of the reading, it will not be appropriate to give stereotypical comprehension questions. Suppose that your students read one book weekly, it would be boring to use the same type to evaluate them. Thus, I prefer engaging post activities.
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