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Tag Archives: Communicative Learning
Taking Learning out of the Classroom in EFL Contexts: Part II
Sherry Blok
I recently blogged on creating meaningful and authentic opportunities to apply student learning to real-life experiences. Most of the activities I suggested related to an ESL teaching context in which students are living in an English-speaking environment. Finding authentic opportunities … Continue reading
A Roomful of Quotes: A Communicative Activity
Alexandra Lowe
I often find that changing what’s on the walls of my classroom changes the energy in the class. Recently, I decided to challenge my intermediate-level adult students to a new speaking activity by posting 24 quotes about taking risks around … Continue reading
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Smartphone Addicts: A Project-Based Learning Activity
Alexandra Lowe
In an earlier blog post, I challenged my students to turn an online quiz about technology into a series of questions they could pose to their classmates to gauge the extent of their obsession with their smartphones and other electronic … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult ESL, alexandra lowe, Communicative Learning, evergreen, presentations
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Role-Playing the Present Perfect: A Speaking Activity
Alexandra Lowe
In a recent post, I described having my students “eavesdrop” on how the present perfect tense is actually used in the world they live in: at work, on TV, on the Internet, and by their children as they speak English with … Continue reading
Eavesdropping on the Present Perfect
Alexandra Lowe
Perhaps no frequently used tense in the English language is as bedeviling as the present perfect tense. Many advanced ESL students still struggle to use it correctly. And plenty of instructors—myself included—have struggled to teach it well. This fall, after … Continue reading
Look Into My Eyes…and Learn Unforgettable Vocabulary!
Alexandra Lowe
Sometimes, you get lucky. A planned activity that you hope will be moderately interesting and instructive turns into a runaway success. Here’s one: Inspired by a recent article in the New York Times that reported that reading Chekhov was the best … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, adult ESL activity, alexandra lowe, audience analysis, classroom activity, classroom practice, Communicative Learning, esl vocabulary, evergreen, leadership communication, new york times, Reading Body Language, Teaching Vocabulary
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