Did you ever have a teacher who you wished could use the whiteboard a little better?
You know. The guy with tiny, scrawled handwriting.
The lady with messy notes and forgotten details.
One professor comes to mind for me. He …
How to Get Your ESL Students Excited with Project-based Learning
Are you desperately searching for ways to spice up your ESL lessons?
Are your students lacking motivation or finding the course material boring and meaningless?
Do you think the course material is boring and meaningless?
If you answered yes …
What the Flip Is a Flipped ESL Classroom?
Students and teachers are flipping obsessed with the Flipped ESL Classroom model.
Flipping the script of a traditional classroom is trending in ESL classrooms across the nation.
What exactly does “flipping the script” mean? Well, consider the following as the …
11 Useful Tips to Boost Your Intermediate ESL Students’ Reading Comprehension
So your students can read in English with pretty great pronunciation.
That’s wonderful!
But do they understand what they’re reading?
Better yet, how can you check?
Regardless of the material (news articles, fictional stories, blog posts, etc.), ESL …
4 Simple Ways to Dramatically Improve Clarity in ESL Writing Exercises
Teaching ESL students to write essays can be frustrating for both teachers and students.
Students need to be able to write more than a sentence or two, and the additional effort necessary for writing an essay can lead to a …
SLAP into a New Language: A 4-Step Method to Learn and Teach English
While Mandarin Chinese and Spanish have more speakers the world over, English has unofficially become the language of the world.
When tourists can’t speak the language of the country they are visiting, they often attempt to express themselves in English. …
How to Quickly Create Effective ESL Pronunciation Lessons with Short Readings
Try reading these lines aloud:
“Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,”
Too easy? Alright, now try saying this next pair, from the same poem:
…“Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer,
