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TESOL English Language Bulletin- Sharing selfie improvement 11 October 2019
- Unexpected jump in English language learners prompts IPS to hire more teachers 11 October 2019
- Helping refugee students feel safe 11 October 2019
- Reading the right way 11 October 2019
- Educators want more safety training 11 October 2019
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Category Archives: TESOL Blog
Back-to-School Basics: Avoiding Civil Rights Violations (Part 2)
Ayanna Cooper
In a recent conversation, a colleague asked me a number of questions about supporting schools with various program models in place for their English learner (EL) population. In an effort to provide appropriate language support, we often ask simple questions … Continue reading
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Tagged as civil rights, program administration, program improvement
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11 Back-to-School Strategies for Teachers of ELs
Judie Haynes
Have you ever thought of what kind of support you would need if you were dropped into a classroom in a country where very few people spoke English? Think now of the newly arrived English learners (ELs) in our classrooms … Continue reading
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Tagged as adapting to a new culture, back to school, Judie Haynes, motivation, primary education, primary ESL, refugee education
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Virtual Field Trips for ELT
Greg Kessler
There are numerous ways to use technology today to take virtual field trips. These activities can be designed in many different ways. I tend to think of them as an extension of simulations or role-playing activities that have been popular … Continue reading
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Tagged as edtech, edtech for ELLs, educational technology, field trips, tech tools, virtual field trip
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Video Games and Violence: Facts and Fear
Jeff Kuhn
Video games are back in the news again after a series of tragedies in the United States. It has become a familiar pattern, a young adult commits violence and an immediate response is to lay blame upon video games as … Continue reading
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Tagged as classroom games, game-based learning, gamification, video games
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Back-to-School Basics: Avoiding Civil Rights Violations (Part 1)
Ayanna Cooper
It is the middle of summer in the United States and for some school districts the 2019–2020 school year has already started. Welcome back! For others, it will be starting soon. This blog, the second in a series dedicated to … Continue reading
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Tagged as civil rights, individual learning programs, program administration
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Trends in Second Language Writing: What L2 Writing Folks Are Talking About
Betsy Gilliland
This summer, I literally circumnavigated the globe, and in the process, I attended two conferences where scholars were talking about exciting new ideas in second language writing. While I was in Chile last year, I had the opportunity to participate … Continue reading
The TESOL Research Agenda: By and for Teachers
Jessie Curtis
As a new member of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC), it is a great pleasure to introduce the council’s new series of communications highlighting the TESOL Research Agenda. This agenda outlines trends in English language teaching and research, serves … Continue reading
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Basics of Using Corpora
Greg Kessler
A corpus is a collection, or body, of language. Though usually text-based, corpora (the plural of corpus) can include collections of spoken language as well. In fact, some of the most popular examples of corpora include TV news and U.S. … Continue reading