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Tag Archives: adult ESL
Fluency and Accuracy Activities: Striking a Balance
Rob Sheppard
In everyday usage, fluent is often used interchangeably with proficient, as in, He’s pretty fluent in Arabic. But in language teaching, fluency is a bit more technical and just one component of language proficiency, often discussed in tandem with accuracy: … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, classroom activity, classroom practice, evergreen, fluency, Robert Sheppard, speaking activity, teaching speaking
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How to Make American History Easier for ELLs
Nathan Hall
After I earned my MA in TESOL, I took a job teaching American history through a college’s ESL program. I’ve always been interested in history, and I couldn’t understand why all of the other teachers preferred to teach grammar or … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, community college, evergreen, Nathan Hall, postsecondary ESL, U.S. history
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Guest Writer: Independent Online Reading Practice
Tara Arntsen
Rebecca Palmer, a colleague of mine at Northern State University, has the unenviable task of teaching beginner reading to a very mixed level group of adults in the Academic English Program. While many of the materials we have dug up … Continue reading
Lowering Affective Filter to Teach Adults Pronunciation
Rob Sheppard
Rob Sheppard, director of adult education at Quincy Asian Resources, member of the community advisory council at First Literacy, and curriculum consultant at Boston Global Institute, has joined the TESOL Blog. Rob will be blogging biweekly on adult education. ___________________ Twice a … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult ed, adult ESL, evergreen, pronunciation, Robert Sheppard, teaching adults
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Playing With Pronunciation
Alexandra Lowe
In many intermediate and advanced ESL classes, it’s common to assign a novel for students to read for class. Less common is the assignment of a work of nonfiction. And rare indeed, in my experience, is the assignment of a … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, alexandra lowe, evergreen, pronunciation
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Guest Writer: Technology in an Adult Ed ESL Program
Tara Arntsen
Realizing that readers of the TESOL Blog teach in a wide variety of contexts, I invited a colleague, Darrin Hetrick, whose students are very different from my own, to share his experiences with technology in the classroom. For those of … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, educational technology, ESP, evergreen, tara arntsen, technology in ELT
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Speed Paraphrasing
Alexandra Lowe
Learning how to paraphrase is a crucial academic writing skill. Teaching paraphrasing is also a great way to teach critical thinking skills, because the struggle to write a succinct paraphrase forces students to wrestle with the underlying meaning of a writer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult ESL, alexandra lowe, evergreen, group activity, paraphrasing, second language writing, teaching adults, writing activity
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Craigslist and the Art of Asking Questions
Alexandra Lowe
In a blog post last summer, I described a mnemonic device one of my students invented to help her classmates master the ability to pose grammatically accurate questions in the simple past. Here’s another fun way to practice questioning skills with … Continue reading