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A Cup of Coffee with TESOL Experts: Flipped Learning
- Feb 8, 2021
This week’s question: In a hybrid or flipped context, how should we decide whether a particular activity will be carried out in the physical classroom or online?
10 Reasons to Put Community Before Content
- Feb 8, 2021
With classrooms looking different than they did before COVID-19, we are still under the same pressure to get the desired outcomes from our student and our classes. Though content and outcomes are part of our classroom life, they are not everything. Our classroom community is far more important than any content that we could possibly teach.
6 Strategies to Improve Student Writing and Literacy
- Feb 1, 2021
The research essay and position paper are staples of composition classrooms. At the same time, students need to move beyond genre.
A Cup of Coffee with TESOL Experts: Engaging Students in Live Sessions
- Feb 1, 2021
This week’s question: What are some strategies to better engage learners in synchronous learning environments?
Peer Advice for Faculty Teaching Online for the First Time
- Jan 25, 2021
Wiley Education Services sat down with Dr. Roshan Boojihawon and Dr. Michael Shulver to discuss differences between online versus classroom teaching, best practices for the online environment, and recommendations for faculty. Key takeaway: distance learning isn’t so scary after all.
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A Cup of Coffee with TESOL Experts: Teaching Vocabulary
- Jan 25, 2021
This week’s question: What is the best way to teach vocabulary to students reluctant to read?
Humor in the Language Classroom: Pedagogical Benefits and Practical Considerations
- Jan 18, 2021
Humor in the language classroom seems to be still a nebulous concept surrounded by controversies regarding its pedagogical effects and implementation.
6 Scaffolds to Support ELs in a Virtual Classroom
- Jan 11, 2021
Students are currently sitting in virtual classrooms during the pandemic, struggling to understand content-area information. It is critical for ELs to obtain comprehensible input from their teachers, and this has become increasingly difficult in a virtual setting.
A Framework For Developing Online Tests
- Jan 4, 2021
The advent of online and blended programs has brought about changes for teachers and learners, and it has required adjustments in curricula. One such adjustment involves the design and development of testing frameworks that can fulfill new program needs.
A Cup of Coffee with TESOL Experts: Pronunciation & World Englishes
- Dec 18, 2020
This week’s question: Is teaching pronunciation important in the age of world Englishes?
A Cup of Coffee with TESOL Experts: Teaching Pronunciation Without IPA
- Dec 18, 2020
This week’s question: How to teach sound discrimination and sound production with visual aids without teaching IPA to beginner students?
How to Make Coteaching Work Virtually: Know Your People
- Oct 1, 2020
Coteaching is a powerful intervention for students, especially English language learners, so we knew we needed to figure out a way to continue our collaborative teaching even though we were scattered around the world.
The Rise of Adjunctification: From Surviving to Thriving
- Sep 22, 2020
Adjunctification is on the rise in institutions of higher education across the United States. This is not a new phenomenon; colleges and universities have been steadily relying more and more on the underpaid labor of part-time, nonbenefited faculty.
The Disparate Impact of COVID‐19 Remote Learning on English Learners in the United States
- Aug 30, 2020
The March 2020 closure of most schools in the United States due to the COVID‐19 pandemic marked a sudden and dramatic shift in how teaching and learning happened. All the 55 million K‐12 students were deeply affected by the move from face‐to‐face to remote learning.
Online Teacher Education Resources in ELT: Blogs, Vlogs, and Podcasts
- Jul 21, 2020
In this blog post on virtual teacher education, we discuss how to help teacher candidates vicariously experience classroom life when limited to online sources.
Communities of Practice in Online Learning
- Jun 1, 2020
In the face of a rapidly growing K–12 English language learner (ELL) population worldwide, many schools and school districts have struggled to provide training that supports teachers who work with ELL students.
ESL Teacher Leadership: Delivering Professional Development
- Jun 1, 2020
Think about the English learners (ELs) in your school or district. What percentage of each day do they spend with a trained English as a second language (ESL) teacher—one who has studied second language acquisition and language teaching—especially in a distance learning format?
Google PD Courses and Certifications for EL Teachers
- May 26, 2020
Google for Education provides multiple online courses and exams for educators looking to use Google with their students.
Networking for English Language Teachers and Researchers
- May 7, 2020
Networking offers ELT professionals myriad benefits above working in isolation. As professional development, we can learn new ideas for teaching and research through networking as we interact with people interested in similar topics and contexts, as well as those working in broadly different areas. We can gain awareness of controversies and new developments in our field.
Using The 6 Principles to Support Language Learning in Times of Crisis
- May 1, 2020
The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners® has been a TESOL International Association initiative for several years now. At this time, we’d like to explore how these principles can more actively inform our teaching practice in this unprecedented period of upheaval and adaptation.
