Print
Email
TESOL English Language Bulletin- US education: Still separate and unequal 30 January 2015
- Study: Why school snow days are good for students 30 January 2015
- A handy tool for English language learners 30 January 2015
- Research: More funding, smaller classes important in education 30 January 2015
- Girls lead boys in academic achievement globally 30 January 2015
Tag Archives: teaching writing
Using Journals and Magazines to Teach About Audience
Elena Shvidko
Today I’d like to share two simple activities that can help second language writers apply the concept of audience. The first activity is suitable for students of intermediate and higher levels of proficiency; the second one is designed for beginners … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as academic writing, classroom activity, elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, teaching writing
1 Comment
New Year Resolutions: More Classroom Activities
Elena Shvidko
New Year is a perfect time to set new goals and make personal promises. Perhaps at least once in our life, each of us makes New Year resolutions. And I believe it’s not just a cultural concept—most people consider New … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as classroom writing activity, elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, teaching writing, writing activities
2 Comments
Effective Peer Feedback Through Modeling: Part 2
Elena Shvidko
In my last blog, I shared a modeling activity that writing teachers can do to help students analyze each other’s writing and make more out of peer review activities. Today, I would like to describe a modeling activity that uses … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as academic writing, elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, modeling writing, peer feedback, second language writing, teaching writing
1 Comment
Effective Peer Feedback Through Modeling: Part 1
Elena Shvidko
Peer review has long been regarded as beneficial practice in the teaching of writing. In North American educational settings, learners are often asked to provide feedback on each other’s papers. However, when international students come to study either in intensive … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as academic writing, elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, modeling writing, peer review, teaching writing
2 Comments
Hiking is Fun! The National Park Service Website for ESL Writing
Elena Shvidko
I have always associated summers with being outside, somewhere in nature, spending time at a lake, going on a hike, and sitting by a campfire. Since I came to the United States, I have not spent a single summer without … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as classroom writing activity, elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, teaching writing, writing resources
5 Comments
Teaching Intros and Conclusions to ELLs Without a Safety Net
Guest Author
A Guest Post by Walton Burns Walton Burns has taught English for 13 years, starting in the Peace Corps in Vanuautu. Since then, he’s worked around the world. His students have been Kazakh oil executives, Afghan high school students, and Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as academic writing, ESL writing, evergreen, teaching writing, writing activities, writing resources
Leave a comment
Teaching Nonfiction Writing to Beginning English Learners
Judie Haynes
It is essential that English learners (ELs) are taught to write from the time they first learn English. I have always been convinced that English learners write more comprehensively if they begin with nonfiction reading and writing and their writing … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as elementary education, elementary writing, ELL writing, evergreen, Judie Haynes, teaching writing, writing resources
2 Comments
Teaching About Audience Through Public Service Announcements
Elena Shvidko
As I mentioned in some of my previous posts, the concept of audience is not always easy to comprehend for second language writers. And even when students seem to have an idea what this term means conceptually, they may still … Continue reading
6 Ideas for Writing in the Real World
Elena Shvidko
Do your students feel uncomfortable writing in the real world? This is a fair concern, and in fact, I can definitely relate to that—when I started to learn English, I was afraid of making mistakes, which oftentimes made me quite … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as classroom practice, elena shvidko, English language teaching, ESL writing, evergreen, second language writing, teaching writing
4 Comments
Function-Based Vocabulary Notebooks
Elena Shvidko
A few years ago, when I was teaching an intermediate writing course in an intensive English program, one of the experiential objectives of the course was to help students build their vocabulary by having them keep a function-based vocabulary notebook. … Continue reading
Posted in TESOL Blog
Tagged as academic writing, elena shvidko, esl vocabulary, ESL writing, evergreen, teaching writing
31 Comments