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TESOL English Language Bulletin- 6 tips for engaging the families of English language learners 5 December 2019
- 10 prominent women education leaders share steps to improve the US education system 5 December 2019
- Survey: Special needs students, ELs more positive about school mental health services 5 December 2019
- States gear up to overhaul K-12 funding in 2020 5 December 2019
- English language proficiency in Malaysia suffers from denial 5 December 2019
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Category Archives: TESOL Blog
6 Arguments for Smaller Class Sizes
Judie Haynes
I was recently reading an article about the Chicago Teachers Union and how it is pushing class size as a contract issue. This led me to wonder about how class size affects the academic achievement of English learners (ELs). According to … Continue reading
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Tagged as class size, classroom management, elementary education, elementary ESL, Judie Haynes, primary education, primary ESL
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TESOL Member Moment: Araceli Salas
Araceli Salas
TESOL Member Moment celebrates our members’ achievements and contributions to the field of English language teaching.
Board Games for the ESL/EFL Classroom
Jeff Kuhn
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another installment of the games and learning blog. In last month’s blog post, we looked at Minecraft as a standout video game for the classroom. This month, we go analogue and take a look … Continue reading
Writing for Professional Development
Betsy Gilliland
So far in my posts about second language writing, I have focused on topics about teaching writing to language learners. As writing teachers, however, we owe it ourselves and our students to be writers as well as teachers of writing, … Continue reading
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Tagged as academic writing, professional development, teaching writing
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Strategies to Combat Anti-Immigration Bullying
Judie Haynes
On 3 August 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, USA. A gunman killed 22 people and injured 24 others using a version of an AK-47 assault rifle. The gunman posted a White nationalist, … Continue reading
5 Apps for English Learning and Teaching
Greg Kessler
It’s quite common to not allow the use of mobile phones in the English classroom. However, there is an increasing array of opportunities to use them in meaningful ways. Because students today are likely to have their own devices, we … Continue reading
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Tagged as apps for ESL, cell phones in teaching, edtech, edtech for ELLs, educational apps, educational technology, language learning apps
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Tidying Up Your ELT: 3 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Teaching
Gabriela Kleckova
In this blog, I share a few tips on decluttering your teaching. My thinking about the topic of clutter in teaching has been inspired by recent movements to let go of our possessions in order to be happier and freer—becoming … Continue reading
Back to School With Minecraft
Jeff Kuhn
Welcome back to another TESOL games and learning blog post. As a new school year starts in many parts of the world, it’s a great time to take a look at Minecraft. Perhaps most everyone has heard of Minecraft at … Continue reading
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Tagged as CALL, classroom games, computer-assisted language learning, game-based learning, gamification, minecraft
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