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Tags: Boost, Classroom, Confidence, TEFL

If the thought of facing a room full of expectant English learners makes your tummy go all wonky and sees you reaching for the door, you’re not alone! Most new TEFL teachers find summing up the courage to take their first few lessons pretty tricky, but help is at hand. Here are seven easy ways to boost your classroom confidence.

1. Do a TEFL course

Want disengaged students, sweaty armpits and stressful lessons? Don’t do a TEFL course! Simply being a native English speaker is enough to nab you a TEFL job, but doesn’t mean you’ll know what to do when faced with…

1 Comment Category: Books
Tags: Bridging, Classroom, Discourses, Researchers, Students, Teachers

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Sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition and pedagogy acquisition are the two biggest areas of research in applied linguistics and need to be anchored in studies. This text addresses the central issues in these fields.

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: Students, Teachers and Researchers

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Tags: Classroom, Literacy, Multiple, Paths, Readers, Struggling, Techniques

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Full of practical ideas and strategies, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to diagnose, assess, and support the literacy development of struggling readers and second language learners. Unique to this book is a philosophical approach that links all literacy domains with the eight recognized multiple intelligences. This serves as a springboard for identifying appropriate instructional strategies to meet individual student needs.

Multiple Paths to Literacy: Classroom Techniques for Struggling Readers, K-12

2 Comments Category: Classroom Literacy
Tags: Classroom, Door, Give, Idea, Literacy, Month

There’s a small competition happening in the school: each class decorates the classroom door that has something to do with Literacy and im not very creative so i cant think of something good. Any ideas? Please help!

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Tags: Assessing, Classroom, From, Literacies, Perspectives

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New literacies, globally popular among children and adolescents in and out of school contexts, are challenging educators and institutions to rethink pedagogies. As educators begin to embrace the pedagogical possibilities of multimodal texts and digital practices, they are exploring the complexities of assessing these new literacies. The essays in this book explore what it means to assess the sophisticated textual engagements of new literacies, including reading and writing online, social networking, gaming, multimodal composing, and creating virtual identities. Chapters offer practical examples of new literacies, and examine how assessment provides insight into the diverse ways in which language is…

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Tags: Awarenessin, based, Classroom, Comenius, Intercultural, Project, Study

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This work aims to explore the meaning, function and importance of intercultural awareness in the ESL environment. It does not intend to explore the teaching of Anglo-American culture. Rather, it concentrates on the English language as an international communication tool and, as such, it raises intercultural awareness among ESL learners. It further discusses the possibilities of transmitting culture through foreign language teaching and cultural sensitivity together with its practical and moral aspects. The study is based on a period of language assistantship of English in an Italian primary school. The assistantship improved intercultural awareness both from the point of…

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2 Comments Category: ESL Literacy HELP
Tags: Classroom, Good, Intermediate, Lesson, Plan, Student, Would

Unfortunately, I cannot find lesson plans for one or two student classrooms for ESL instruction. It is going to be used in a middle school classroom. I need about 20-25 minutes worth of activities to use during the class period.

Also, I’m looking for a low intermediate lesson plan that is designed for a one or two student classroom for an elementary classroom, which will be used for about 25-30 minutes.

Thank you for your help. I really need it!
These lesson plans will be primarily used for reading or writing activities.

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Write Comment Category: English Lesson Plans
Tags: Brings, Classroom, History, Life, Technology

Everyone has their favourite subjects at school. Sporty folk look forward to their weekly dose of football, gymnastics or swimming in Physical Education, whilst bookworms will revel in their English teacher’s knowledge of Shakespeare, Dickens and Orwell.

However, a teacher has the ability to make or break a subject for their young learners. Their own enthusiasm for their chosen area of expertise will rub off on their pupils and will shape their learning experiences as they grow up. A child with a natural inclination towards sports may also learn to love social sciences with the right teacher at the helm.

History, for…

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Tags: Classroom, Esl/efl, Learning, Styles

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This comprehensive volume explores the widespread issues involved in the study of individual learner differences in a variety of settings.

Learning Styles in the ESL/EFL Classroom

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Tags: Classroom, Development, Literacy, Storytelling

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Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom shows just how powerful a tool storytelling can be for building vital language skills—not just reading and writing, but speaking, listening, visual literacy, and information literacy as well. It is an exceptionally rich and rewarding resource that helps teachers and tellers work together to focus story time on language development.

Moving grade-by-grade from pre-K to middle school, Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom offers both research-based ideas and specific lesson plans for using storytelling to promote literacy learning. Lessons seamlessly integrate material from traditional domains of social studies, science, math, and language arts, while incorporating elements…

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