Creating Simple ESL Lesson Plans Around Top Ten Lists for Advanced English Classes
July 1, 2014
Chimayo Press
Advanced ESL/EFL classes benefit from making top ten lists “Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.” ―Tenzin Gyatso (1950-) 14th Dalai Lama Americans…
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What Three Tips Would You Share with Novice ESL / EFL Teachers?
August 15, 2013
Chimayo Press
What three tips would offer new a ESL/EFL teacher? Hall Houston, author of Provoking Thought: Memory and Thought in ELT, posed this question to several…
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Informational Interviews Help ESOL Students Succeed and Connect to Jobs
March 1, 2013
Chimayo Press
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” – Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990), Canadian-American educator How do you…
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Do Our Students Need to Swim in English or Pass Grammar Tests?
October 26, 2012
Chimayo Press
Here is a short list of important questions for our English language learners. Can they order food in a nice restaurant? Can students fill in…
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Don’t Let Perfectionism Silence You!
August 27, 2012
Chimayo Press
Some English students make learning English even more difficult by expecting themselves to speak “perfect”, with “no accent” just like ” a real native English…
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Why We Wrote Compelling American Conversations for Intermediate American English Language Learners
July 18, 2012
Chimayo Press
“America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.” – Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American writer and longshoreman Compelling American Conversations: Questions and Quotations for intermediate…
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Videotaping Helps ESL Students Recognize Their Good Mistakes – and Learn from Them!
February 17, 2012
Chimayo Press
How do you help your ESL students recognize their errors in speaking English? What techniques do you use to make their mistakes “psychologically real” to…
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Do Informational Interviews Have a Place in Business English Programs?
December 15, 2011
Chimayo Press
Speaking skills – especially in stressful situations – matter. Most quality Business English and VESL (Vocational English as a Second Language) programs provide extensive training…
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Why Are So Many EFL Textbooks So Bland, Boring, and Culturally Tone Deaf?
September 28, 2011
Chimayo Press
Why are so many EFL Textbooks so bland, boring, and culturally tone-deaf? Allow me to ask a more polite question. How can English teachers working…
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Becoming an Autotelic English Teacher
July 7, 2011
Chimayo Press
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.” Marcus Cicero, Roman statesman and orator…
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