March 7th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Classroom, Digital, Learning, Literacies, Practices, Social
- ISBN13: 9781847870384
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Product Description
Digital technologies are an everyday part of life for students and this book explores the ways in which they can be used in schools. The authors provide insight into the research on digital technologies, stressing its relevance for schools, and suggest ways to develop new, more relevant pedagogies, particularly for social learning, literacy, and literate practices. With a practical focus, the examples and issues explored in this book will help you to analyze your own practice and to carry out your own small-scale research projects.
Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices…
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March 6th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Classroom, CrossCultural, Encounters, Interactions, Lessons, Native, Speakers
Product Description
Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as teachers, learners, and language users, with different pedagogic, institutional, social, and political implications. A range of issues in applied linguistics is addressed, including linguistic imperialism, post-colonial theories, micropolitics of classroom interaction, language and identity, and bilingual classroom practices.
Intended to help TESOL professionals of different cultural backgrounds, working in different sociocultural…
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March 5th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Classroom, Composition, Critical, SecondLanguage, Sourcebook, Writing
Product Description
Second-Language Writing addresses key issues for instructors working with multilingual writers in first-year composition. Framed with insightful introductory material, this soucebook provides both theoretical context and practical resources for designing courses, negotiating differences among students, and responding to and assessing second-language writing.
Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook
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February 22nd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Classroom, Diagnosis, Difficulties, Instruction, Literacy, Reading, Specialists, Teachers
Product Description
The purpose of this book is to prepare teachers to meet the reading and writing needs of students whose progress is not moving as rapidly as their peers’. Class-tested for two years in courses at the University of Georgia, Monmouth University, and the University of Notre Dame, Literacy Difficulties has proven itself an invaluable book for teachers and educators in general. Every chapter contains new types of lesson plans and assessment tools for classroom and clinical settings containing pupils with a wide range of reading ability levels. Teachers, curriculum developers, special education teachers, parents!
Literacy Difficulties: Diagnosis and Instruction for…
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February 22nd, 2010
Category: English Lesson Plans
Tags: at, Classroom, Grade, Interactive, Making, Technology, Whiteboards, whiteboards for classrooms
Say goodbye to that dusty chalkboard. Today’s students are comfortable with digital technology and adapting quickly to it in the classroom. In a recent study on tools that are changing the classrooms, Interactive White Boards ranked as one of the most useful tools to enhance learning. One teacher writes, ‘One year after having my interactive white board, I can definitely notice an increase in attention and participation levels for my high school students. The interactive whiteboards helps focus their attention on me and my lessons and helps keep them focused.”
So what is an interactive whiteboard? An interactive whiteboard is basically an…
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February 11th, 2010
Category: ESL Articles
Tags: Activities, at, Beyond, Classroom, discovery activities for classroom with children 36 to 60 months, early production esl activities, ESL, esl activities, esl worksheets, fills, Language, moving, people learn productions, production, production activities in the classroom, TEFL, TEFL/ESL, Vocabulary
Somewhere between scholarly studies of how people learn and the frontline experience of teaching, the issue of how TEFL/ESL learners actually acquire and keep language is confronted in activity design. Language practice activities come in many forms, and their design should take into account learning aims, the most important being language production. What is language production practice? Any student learning any language requires time and concentration to practise language after it has been acquired through a teacherâs presentation or through the discovery approach.
Yet, considering many course book and handout activities formats, not all employ language production. A considerable amount feature…
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January 21st, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Classroom, companion, Complete, Curriculum, Edition, English, Guide, Profession, Teachers, Technology, Third, web
Product Description
For a decade and over two editions, the specific, practical, and experience-honed advice of The English Teacher’s Companion has supported great teaching and cemented Jim Burke’s reputation as a teacher’s teacher. Now the third edition brings the book fully up to date, making it not only a useful resource, but an essential part of any English teacher’s library.
The third edition of The English Teacher’s Companion again delivers vital information on the teaching of English, including foundational advice for teaching literature; nurturing reading, writing, and thinking skills; and organizing for success. But it also responds to needs that Jim has heard…
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January 12th, 2010
Category: Articles
Tags: Activity, at, Classroom, Comprehension, English, ESL, Listening, Vocabulary, web
Try the following activity to get your students interacting and practicing English with one another.
Write out ten sentences on a piece of paper that include vocabulary and grammar covered in class. Cut out each sentence so you have ten slips of paper. Each slip of paper will have a unique sentence on it. Have your students sit in rows of five to six people back. You can decide how many rows there are going to be and how many students in each row by looking at your class numbers. This activity will work with large and small classes.
Now, explain…
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I teach English to non-native speakers. I’ve noticed that students who are desparate to score well often resort to copying information from the net. Another trick is that they hire essay writers to do their assignments for them.