Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Here are some more activities, some of which you can use with little or no prepararion. These are activities that I have found by dredging my computer directories. I there fore do not know the sources fo these activities. I would be happy to give any credit where it is due.
Lying: an icebreaker
air off students. It’s a good idea to pair off the students off oneself, as they might be a bit bashful in pairing off with a partner they don’t know. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a link sent to me by Robert Ledbury. The site is created by Phil Quirke (any relation to Randolph Quirk?) as part of his PhD with Aston University.
‘Welcome to the site that aims to give EFL/ESL teachers studying for Masters and Diplomas all the support they need. Be it quick answers to specific questions, reading lists, content support, good links, book reviews or just someone to scream at, we hope it is all here.’
http://www.philseflsupport.com/
The link has been added to the links page under ‘Teacher Development’.
This post is intended to give the most cursory idea about what exactly task based learning is. Read the rest of this entry »
An online phonemic typewriter does just what it says.
Here is a selection of links for learners to use for their own language learning purposes. There are links to resources under the following categories:
- language links
- topics: Texts to read and listen to, pronunciation practice, spelling practice, …
- listening: over 400 activities.
- native speaker: VOA Special English - limited to 1500 lexical items.
- on line dictionary: each word in the definition has clickable links.
- ask your questions: a learner forum.
- toefl links: these are pre iBIT TOEFL.
- toefl reading
- toefl listening
- toefl writing
- toefl grammar
- grammar: common errors, verbs as well as noun phrase grammar.
- vocabulary: includes some quizzes.
Should any of these links not work, please let me know.
If anyone would like their own link to be included, please let me know.
Why not ask your learners to write reviews and post them here?
Here is a suggested taxonomy for oral communication task types, not in any order of importance.
- Providing extended answers to oral questions.
- Asking and answering questions about diagrams or other visual representations of information.
This is my definition of a false beginner.
‘False beginners are those learners in any ELT program who have consistently failed to master sufficient language skills at each level of instruction: they are operating at an inadequate level of performance at whatever level of instruction they have reached.’
Although no formal definition of the false beginner has, to the best of my knowledge, been agreed upon within TESOL TEFL, the definition proposed by Richards et al [1985: 103] is often quoted: Read the rest of this entry »
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