Resources for English Teachers
These days, teachers around the world are being asked to teach online. I’m sure some of you are worried about how and what to teach online. You don’t have to create anything. Existing materials and resources can help you teach online. I’ve listed all the websites within key areas. You can use them to get going.
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Teaching online became an essential part of today’s education. We’re experiencing somewhat peculiar times face to face education stopped due to the coronavirus outbreak. The institutions are closing down all over the world. That’s why, teachers are looking for a way to teach online and trying to find out how to do it. The trend in online teaching has been getting more popular for the last two decades however, people became more aware of the merits it offers with the
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Taylor (1980) suggested a framework to understand the roles of the computer in education. Even if it has been quite many years, it still sheds light on the issue. He stated that computers could be used as a tutor, tool or tutee.
In tutor mode. Computers teach learners. Computers should be programmed by others and then they can tutor students with installed programs tailored to learners’ needs. The computer presents materials chosen by learners and
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Netflix is one the most well-known and commonly used platforms which involves quite rich content with hundreds of movies/series in different languages. Language learners can benefit from this kind of platforms to improve their language skills. In addition it can be enhanced with a google chrome extension called “Language Learning with Netflix” which makes language learning with films and series more effective and fun. It lets you watch with two
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Benson (2001: 47) offers the following broad definition: “the capacity to take charge of, or responsibility for, one’s own learning”. While the idea of learner autonomy in education has a long history, it is generally recognised that interest emerged in our field in the 1970s with work by researchers at the Centre de Recherches et d’Applications Pédagogiques en Langues (CRAPEL), University of Nancy, France. Here the focus was on equipping language learners with the means to take control of their
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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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Book reviews should be comprised of the items below.
Author: Who is he/she? What else has he/she written? Is this book typical of his/her style? How is his/her background relevant to the book?
Audience: Who is this book for? Children? Adults? People looking for information? Or is it just a good read?
Argument: What are the main ideas or themes of the book? What makes it different and new? Did the author convey the argument successfully?
Assessment: Do you like the book? All of
