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TESOL English Language Bulletin- Schools able to move children out of ELL classes 21 July 2014
- English issues mistaken for learning disabilities in Boston schools 21 July 2014
- The problem isn't teacher recruiting; it's retention 21 July 2014
- Teachers will give up tenure — for the right price 21 July 2014
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Tag Archives: teaching writing
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
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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
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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
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Teaching Intros and Conclusions to ELLs Without a Safety Net
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Composing Professional and Academic E-mails
Elena Shvidko
Sometimes I hear teachers complain about so-called lack of appropriateness of student e-mails, such the absence of a greeting, a signature, or a subject line. The winning award for “the most unprofessional e-mails” goes to those students who simply send … Continue reading
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Helping Students Write for a Real Audience: Travel Blogs
Elena Shvidko
As I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, the concept of audience seems to be quite challenging to grasp for second language writers. One of these challenges may be rooted in the lack of ability to link their knowledge … Continue reading
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