Download or read book Thinking about going into teaching ESL EFL ESOL written by Damian Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is for you if you are considering going into the field of teaching English as a second/foreign language, whether English is your first (native) language or not. I have written it with those who are contemplating pursuing English teaching (ESL, EFL or ESOL) as a career option particularly in mind, but it would also be of interest to individuals who might be thinking about engaging in English teaching on a short term or voluntary basis. My purpose in writing this book is to help you decide whether or not teaching English as a second/foreign language is something you might want to pursue. Based upon my own experience of teaching English as a second language, and my knowledge of the English language teaching field more broadly, I discuss: - what it is like in practical terms to be an ESL/EFL/ESOL teacher - what the job involves and what to expect - beyond the practicalities, to give some insight into how EFL teachers think about their task - the skills, qualities and knowledge needed to be an ESL/EFL/ESOL teacher - the kind of opportunities available I also give some ideas about where to begin with getting into English teaching, and I provide recommendations on how to find out more about the field. Although the focus of this book is the teaching of the English language, much of what is written will be equally relevant to teaching any language. So, if English is not your first language and you are interested in teaching your native language to those who do not know it, this book is for you too.
Download or read book Fifty Ways to Teach Life Skills written by Emily Bryson and published by Wayzgoose Press. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teachers, we want to see our students succeed. Supporting them to acquire life skills is one of the more effective ways to do so. This book provides fifty inspiring, practical tips and activities to enhance students’ social, academic, critical thinking, digital, and work skills to help them become their best selves. It is a quick and essential guide for any busy teacher. This guide is simple, supports all levels of learners, and many of the activities require little or no preparation or special materials. Each activity assists students to improve their speaking, reading, writing, listening, grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation skills while also practising their broader skills for life. The Fifty Ways to Teach series gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English. The ideas can be used with any textbook, or without a textbook at all. These short, practical guides aim to make your teaching life easier, and your students' lives more rewarding and successful. If you’re a busy teacher who wants to see their students excelling, this is the resource for you.
Download or read book Tips for Teaching ESL EFL to Teenagers University Students Adults written by Jackie Bolen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas! And of course, there's a serious learning curve for newbies to teaching English, either in their home countries or abroad. Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, or an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, you need some tips and inspiration for your English classes. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help in a big way! During her 15 years of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless strategies for teaching English. She's sharing her very practical ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In Tips for Teaching ESL/EFL to Teenagers, University Students and Adults, you'll get more than a hundred ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed tips will show you exactly how to use the ideas during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained tips will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting things your students will love! And also make your life easier by lesson planning the better way and avoiding the ESL teacher burnout. Buy the book to have a better English teaching experience!
Download or read book The Knowledge Gap written by Natalie Wexler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Download or read book Teaching ESL EFL Reading and Writing written by I.S.P. Nation and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students. Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, and its companion text, Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking, are similar in format and the kinds of topics covered, but do not need to be used together. Drawing on research and theory in applied linguistics, their focus is strongly hands-on, featuring easily applied principles, a large number of useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring, All Certificate, Diploma, Masters and Doctoral courses for teachers of English as a second or foreign language include a teaching methods component. The texts are designed for and have been field tested in such programs.
Download or read book Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies written by Michelle Maxom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to: Put an EFL course programme together from scratch Let your students loose in skills classes – from reading to listening Deliver grammar lessons in a logical and intuitive way Cope with different age groups and capabilities Your one-stop guide to a career that will take you places If you thought that teaching a language that's second nature to you would be easy, think again! Explaining grammar, or teaching correct pronunciation while simultaneously developing your own skills as a teacher can be a huge challenge. Whether you're on a training course or have already started teaching, this book will help launch your career and give you the confidence and expertise you need to be a brilliant teacher. Make an educated decision – decide between the various courses, qualifications and job locations available to you Start from scratch – plan well-structured lessons and develop successful and effective teaching techniques Focus on skills – from reading and writing, to listening and speaking, get your students sounding and feeling fluent Get your head around grammar – teach students to put sentences together, recognise tenses and use adjectives and adverbs All shapes and sizes – tailor your lessons to younger learners, one-to-ones, exam classes and Business English learners Open the book and find: TEFL, TESOL, EFL – what all the acronyms mean The best course books and materials to supplement your teaching Advice on running your class and handling difficulties Lesson plans that you can use in the classroom Activities and exercises to keep your students on their toes Constructive ways to correct and assess your students' performance Ways to inject some fun into your classes Insider information on the best jobs around the world 'An invaluable manual for anyone thinking of embarking on a TEFL journey. Michelle Maxom's step-by-step guide provides practical tips to get you started and offers key advice to help unleash the creative English language teacher within.' – Claire Woollam, Director of Studies & a Teacher Trainer at Language Link London
Download or read book Tips for Teaching ESL EFL to Teenagers University Students Adults A Practical Guide written by Jackie Bolen and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas! And of course, there's a serious learning curve for newbies to teaching English, either in their home countries or abroad. Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, or an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, you need some tips and inspiration for your English classes. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help in a big way! During her 15 years of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless strategies for teaching English. She's sharing her very practical ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In Tips for Teaching ESL/EFL to Teenagers, University Students and Adults, you'll get more than a hundred ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed tips will show you exactly how to use the ideas during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained tips will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting things your students will love! And also make your life easier by lesson planning the better way and avoiding the ESL teacher burnout. Buy the book to have a better English teaching experience!
Download or read book Compelling Conversations Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics written by Eric H. Roth and published by Chimayo Press. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative ESL/EFL textbook helps advanced English language learners develop conversation skills and improve fluency by sharing experiences, reflecting on their lives, and discussing proverbs and quotations. The oral skills English textbook includes 45 thematic chapters, over 1,350 questions, 500 vocabulary words, 250 proverbs and American idioms, and 500 quotations. Designed for both adult education and intensive English language students, the conversations and activities deepen critical thinking skills and develop speaking skills essential to success in community college and university programs. Compelling Conversations has been used in classrooms in over 40 countries, recommended by English Teaching Professional magazine, adopted by conversation clubs and private English tutors, and enjoyed by thousands of English students.
Download or read book Teaching ESL EFL Listening and Speaking written by I. S. P. Nation and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students. Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking, and its companion text, Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, are similar in format and the kinds of topics covered, but do not need to be used together. Drawing on research and theory in applied linguistics, their focus is strongly hands-on, featuring easily applied principles, a large number of useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring. All Certificate, Diploma, Masters and Doctoral courses for teachers of English as a second or foreign language include a teaching methods component. The texts are designed for and have been field tested in such programs.
Download or read book Developing Critical Thinking in EFL Classes written by Yue Lin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative teaching experiment and an analytical study of critical thinking and the sociocultural theory of learning to illustrate the cognitive learning development mechanisms. It addresses the issues in developing critical thinking, including the controversy surrounding the definition, measurement and teaching of critical thinking, particularly in the L2 context. The book explains how infusion-thinking lessons can be structured to help students develop critical thinking along with language learning. Further, it uses a case study as a real-world example to examine the applicability and feasibility of infusion-thinking lessons in the EFL context and their effectiveness in developing students’ critical thinking and language learning. Packed with thinking activities and techniques, this practical, hands-on manual provides original ideas and empirical data, giving teachers everything they need to plan their lessons to improve students’ critical thinking within language courses and evaluate their teaching.
Download or read book Teaching ESL EFL Reading and Writing written by I.S.P. Nation and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this bestselling text, Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, is a fully updated and expanded guide for teaching learners at all levels of proficiency how to develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. Practical and accessible, this book covers a diverse array of language teaching techniques suitable for all contexts. Updated with cutting-edge research and theory, the second edition is an essential and engaging text. Key insights and suggestions are organised around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – to allow teachers to design and present a balanced programme for their students. Bringing together research and theory in applied linguistics and education, the text includes useful examples and practical strategies and features new topics related to technology, assessment, and genre. The second edition includes new tasks and further reading sections in every chapter. Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing is designed for practising and pre-service teachers of all levels, and is ideal for certificate, diploma, masters, and doctoral courses in English as a second or foreign language.
Download or read book How to Think in English in Three Vital Steps written by Leona Wellington and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Think in English is a light, personalized guide to help ESL / EFL teachers worldwide. It outlines the framework for the 3 vital steps you need to teach English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). It covers the obvious about how English functions at its core level by mapping out the precise order your ESL/EFL learners need to acquire in order to think as a native speaker would think. Although it is aimed as a guide for English teachers, it is written in a simple entertaining style with lots of examples, anecdotes, stories and suggestions for helping students engage their right brain to acquire this core concept. It is a fun read for anyone interested in the linguistic aspects of that infamous language: English (the lingua franca). This book offers suggestions for accomplishing this task. It contains two specially designed activities that support the core concept as well as some amusing metaphors (The Three Brother's Law and The Accordion Principle) that will help your students remember the concept. This book is about the heartbeat and rhythm of the language, something you may have stopped hearing a long time ago but which your students need to learn so they can march with the beat of the English language in its succinct personal way of thinking and expressing itself.
Download or read book The Asian EFL Classroom written by Soo-Ok Kweon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an insight into the 21st century teaching and learning of English in Asia. Despite English being widely recognized as a lingua franca in this era of globalization, the general EFL proficiency of graduates from high schools and even universities in most Asian countries are still below the expectations of policymakers. Given the critical role English will play in the globalized world, this review and examination of the current state of English education in Asia is both important and timely. This book consists of ten chapters from ten different Asian countries, including the Russian Far East. The scope of the book allows EFL students, researchers and teachers to gain perspectives on many of the significant current issues, expectations, and challenges in the teaching and learning of English faced by Asia in the 21st century.
Download or read book The ESL ELL Teacher s Survival Guide written by Larry Ferlazzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed resource for teaching English to all learners The number of English language learners in U.S. schools is projected to grow to twenty-five percent by 2025. Most teachers have English learners in their classrooms, from kindergarten through college. The ESL/ELL Teacher?s Survival Guide offers educators practical strategies for setting up an ESL-friendly classroom, motivating and interacting with students, communicating with parents of English learners, and navigating the challenges inherent in teaching ESL students. Provides research-based instructional techniques which have proven effective with English learners at all proficiency levels Offers thematic units complete with reproducible forms and worksheets, sample lesson plans, and sample student assignments The book?s ESL lessons connect to core standards and technology applications This hands-on resource will give all teachers at all levels the information they need to be effective ESL instructors.
Download or read book Enriching Esol Pedagogy written by Vivian Zamel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry is a collection of thought-provoking articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, critically examining, and investigating theory and practice. Its twofold purpose is to provide a theoretical perspective and to offer ways for making the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) meaningful for both teachers and learners. Underlying the activities and the readings themselves is the assumption that teachers need to play a role in exploring, shaping, and theorizing the work they do. The readings included represent a range of genres. They are informed by a common philosophical perspective about language acquisition and treat language teaching and learning holistically. The book is organized into five integrated units that: * raise questions about conventional notions of methods; * take into account the complicated nature of real classrooms; * provide theoretical principles for teaching that promotes language acquisition; * include rich descriptions of actual classroom experiences; and * question assumptions about language and literacy. Each set of readings begin with a "Before Reading" section and is followed by "Reflecting on the Readings," "Reading for Further Reflection," and "Suggested Projects for Inquiry" sections. This volume is a valuable resource for practicing and prospective teachers in the field of TESOL who work with diverse student populations--at all levels--in both mainstream and ESL/bilingual settings.
Download or read book Not for ESOL Teachers written by Eileen N. Ariza and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on this foundation of understanding, the author describes effective instructional practices that mainstream teachers may use to address a range of classroom scenarios, including detailed examples of how to modify curriculum for English learners with various levels of language proficiency."--Jacket.
Download or read book Fifty Ways to Teach Writing written by Maggie Sokolik and published by Wayzgoose Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing ought to be the easiest of the four skills for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. Unlike listening and reading, the students control all the words. Unlike speaking, the students can go back, check their work, revise it, and resubmit it. It should then follow that writing would be one of the most popular courses to teach. Yet teachers never say, “I can’t wait till I get tenure, so I can teach some of those composition classes of 35 students.” However, writing classes also offer the opportunity to see growth, to share important ideas, and to develop a sense of community. The tips in Fifty Ways Ways to Teach Writing are chosen with that goal in mind -- to make it easier for students to succeed at becoming better writers, and for instructors to enjoy the teaching of writing. This book is divided into three categories, which represent the stages of process writing: a) Pre-writing and planning b) Writing topics and strategies c) Editing and revising The Fifty Ways to Teach series gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English. Most of the ideas can be used for both beginning and advanced classes. Many require little to no preparation or special materials. The ideas can be used with any textbook, or without a textbook at all. These short, practical guides aim to make your teaching life easier, and your students' lives more rewarding and successful.
