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KOTESOL – Time for Change. Vote!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

If you are teaching in Korea, you might know about KOTESOL – the Korean branch of TESOL. I’ve been giving presentations through them at all levels for a number of years but keep a fairly distant relationship. Just teacher training / workshops. (you can see my Teacher Training page with them here).
Kotesol and its chapters [...]

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A Learning Disability or a Language Acquisition Issue?

Sunday, May 31, 2009

This is a question that faces many classroom teachers. Is the “slower” student who just can’t seem to acquire English suffering from a learning disability (LD)? Or is this student just going at their own pace or in need of more English input and maybe differentiated instruction? How to know, how to decide?
Dinklage [...]

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The Power of Story…

Monday, October 27, 2008

Whatever the subject, I believe that stories should play a vital role. We are hardwired to learn through stories and more importantly to “embed” within our subconscious mind, the lessons and learning of life, by way of story. Wisdom is a story.
I have used stories in the EFL classroom and especially funny stories (there [...]

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Tips for Learning Languages

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I’m asked A LOT of questions on EFL Classroom 2.0. One of the most common is “How can I learn a language? Got any tips?”
 
If I had to say my number one tip for teaching languages…..I couldn’t. There is no No. 1, top dog, big cheese. Why?Well, I think us teachers are all so different. [...]

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Let’s Play “EFL” Ball!

Monday, September 3, 2007

I am a big proponent of learning through the use of games in the classroom. This is especially valuable for my area of teaching, EFL. Here I hope to highlight the games I’ve developed. Post examples and comments and also inspire other teachers to create their own class specific games. As we play, we’ll grow [...]

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