Author Archive | Elena Chou

22 Effective ESL Reading Activities Your Students Will Love

Do your ESL students sometimes struggle to understand what they’ve read? Reading comprehension is notoriously difficult for students to learn and for teachers to teach. You have to make it interesting and effective. Otherwise, your students will lose interest and …

7 Creative Ways to Use Authentic Materials for Teaching English

As ESL teachers, we have many helpful resources to aid our classroom teaching. And we’re lucky we can take advantage of technology to find excellent ESL teaching tools online. But a great teacher will also recognize the limitations of …

Comprehensible Input: 8 Teaching Strategies for Your ESL Classroom

Your job as an ESL teacher is to give your students the correct input. That way, you’ll get the right output—properly-learned language! That means you need to present new ideas to your students at the most linguistically appropriate level to …

7 Key Learning Styles in English Language Teaching: Visual, Verbal and More

There are seven major learning styles that students possess. By creating lesson plans that appeal to multiple learning styles, you’re sure to see class-wide improvement. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the seven main learning styles in English language …

9 Quick and Fun ESL Games to Teach Verbs and Tenses

If you want to go beyond the usual verb exercises, I’ve got the solution for you. This guide will help you integrate ESL verb games into your lesson plans for fun in the classroom. After all, there are so …