Oh! Ahh! 15 New Language Classroom Translation Activities Raul sauntered into my English Review class, slouched into his chair and threw an open notebook onto his desk in …
10 Colorful Approaches to Teaching Context in Language What exactly is “context”? Looking at the word’s origin gives us a lovely image. It’s from the Latin contextus,…
Foreign Language Rubrics: A Guide to Writing Analytic and Holistic Rubrics The word “rubric” has its roots in the Latin word for the color red. Red is the color of my …
The Guide to Using Portfolio Assessment in Language Teaching: 6 Tips for Success Pop quiz, unit test, final exam. Multiple choice, fill in the blanks, match items, short answer. Hand it out. Set …
3 Fresh Ways to Use the Audio-lingual Method in Your Class Have you heard that the audio-lingual method is dead? Well, it’s not! Just because there hasn’t been much buzz about …
Get Active! 7 Foreign Language Activities That Keep Students on Their Toes Teaching a foreign language is sometimes like pushing that stone up the hill, just to have it roll back …
Tool Time! 13 Handy Language Teaching Tools You’ve Gotta Have Would a carpenter go to a job site without the right tools? Would a surgeon enter the operating theater …
Begin at the Beginning: 10 Tips for Teaching Any Language to Newbies Did you just get assigned a class full of beginners? Great! Are you worried about what to do with them? …
10 Fun Drama Activities for Dynamic Language Learning Can you use drama activities for language learning in your classroom? You bet! Almost everyone loves to play-act, from …
