This website is dedicated to all English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers.
Teachers who understand the trauma-informed, wellness approach can have a profound impact on adult students affected by trauma—loss, domestic violence, childhood abuse, racism, natural disaster, and ongoing poverty. Learn more about this topic by reading on Patch.
Are English language learners acquiring the skills necessary to become literate in the English language by the end of high school? National achievement data indicate that the answer is no. As a result, students who are ELLs will struggle to leverage reading and writing as threshold skills for college, career, and everyday life. Learn more about this topic by reading on SmartBrief.
PDF #95 – Pfenninger, Simone E. and Navracsics, Judith – Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics
It is important to know what is the future research on applied linguistics. To the extent that this collection, as its title implies, offers a snapshot of future implications for applied linguistics, our intention is to contribute to the progress and academic development of this broad discipline.
You can check more on Applied Linguistics in this link, and I am discussing some of the topics of this site in my Youtube channel.
In what language do you feel? To put it differently, in what language are you spontaneously inclined to express your deepest feelings? I need not elaborate on the importance of these considerations in these times of mounting horror, anxiety and sorrow. Learn more about this topic by reading on the DailyNation.
PDF #94 – P Skehan – Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, 2006, The Chinese Uni HK
A number of preliminaries are unavoidable here. There is the issue of a critical period for language, that is, a period during which acquisition is different from other learning processes.
Sitting in Judy Oster’s classes feels like a homecoming for anyone who loves literature. Imagine reading, exploring and discussing Austen, Wharton, Faulkner, Camus, Oz, Roth, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and more. Imagine delving into the art of reading poetry and listening to the elegance of Frost, Yeats, Dickinson, Hopkins, T.S. Eliot and others. Learn more about this topic by reading on JPost.
PDF #93 – P H Matthews – Language as a Mental Faculty Chomskys Progress
Noam Chomsky is at once a brilliant grammarian and an important philosopher of language. As a grammarian, he has had greater influence on our conception of English syntax, both of the nature of syntax and the nature of particular constructions, than any other scholar now living, and continues to display a remarkable ability to discover new problems and new generalizations that his predecessors had entirely failed to notice.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.
Cloud Nine Education Group Ltd is part of a shift in the teaching of ESL (English as a second language) into the digital world with its cloud-based platform used as a tool by teachers in the classroom. The curriculum is technologically advanced to meet the needs of increasingly mobile students. Tablets replace textbooks and the course content includes instructional videos and internet links which learners use to supplement in-class studies.
Learn more about this topic by reading on ProactiveInvestors.
PDF #92 – Mark B Ulla – English language teaching in Thailand Filipino teachers experiences and perspectives
English language teaching and learning is vital for the development of the country and its people. In Thailand, English language teaching has become one of the most popular jobs both for native and non-native English speaker-teachers.
After reading “Learning an L2 in a troubled world” you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs, and visit my YouTube channel.
Remote learning is complicated and it will take a village to make it succeed.
Learn more about this topic by reading on MB.