Adapting Childhood Games for the ESL Classroom
Adapting childhood games for the ESL classroom can result in a learning experience that is simultaneously constructive and fun. Games are a good way to reinforce speaking and listening skills,…
Teaching ESL Grammar with Games and Activities
It can be quite difficult for young ESL students to get comfortable using English, especially given the notoriously daunting nature of English grammar. With the specific parts of speech and…
Reasons to Consider a Career in TEFL
There are a number of reasons why teaching ESL might be a profession worth considering. Teaching ESL can be rewarding, enjoyable, and quite profitable, and it comes with a number…
Finding the Most Suitable ESL Teaching Resources
The best way to locate useful ESL resources for teachers is simply to spend one's free time searching. This means not only surfing the internet for ESL worksheets, ESL games,…
Ways to Learn Thinking in a Foreign Language
Ways to Learn Thinking in a Foreign Language: Guest Blog by Sophia Anderson Although most people don't really pay attention to it, we all have our own internal monologues going on…
The Gamification Concept: How to Include It in Language Lessons
Guest Post by Brenda Savoie In a very popular TED conversation, game designer Jane McGonigal explored important questions: why are games so attractive, and how can we get as much from…
Teaching Students to Love the English Language
For ESL students who have grown up with little exposure to the English language, English can be either a fun subject to learn or a source of frustration and nightmares.…
Teaching Present Perfect Tense to ESL Students
Teaching the present perfect tense to ESL students can be tricky, as this tense relates to the past as well as the present. Following are some simple tips for teaching…
Seven Steps to Becoming a Good ESL Teacher
When entering the ESL teaching profession, it can at times seem daunting to create a classroom environment this is fun and productive. It is not enough to be simply a…
How to Become Your Students’ Favorite Teacher
Recently, in an elementary school in the small Asian city where I live, the students were being orally tested on some basic sentence patterns. One of these involved the pattern,…