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TESOL English Language Bulletin- Summer school for immigrant high schoolers helps with English skills, community 27 June 2022
- Ongoing Professional Development — A Better Way 27 June 2022
- TESOL Joins Coalition for the American Dream, Commemorating 10 Years of DACA, Submits Letter to Senate and House Leaders in Support of Legislation to Make DACA Permanent 27 June 2022
- Register by 11 July for SWEL Workshop 3! 27 June 2022
- The role of EFL/ESL teachers' psychological empowerment and optimism on their job commitment 27 June 2022
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Tag Archives: SLW
Travel Writing Activities: Escape From Cabin Fever
Betsy Gilliland
Every new year holds much promise as we look ahead: 12 months of possibility for learning and adventure. Sitting in my house in the middle of a week of pouring rain, however, after nearly 2 years of staying close to … Continue reading
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Online Role-Playing Games for Writing
Betsy Gilliland
Today I want to share a fascinating project being developed by Lin Zhou, a graduate student at University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, which I think will be interesting for writing teachers and other TESOL professionals. Lin is a PhD candidate in … Continue reading
Trends in SLW: Electronic Forms of Response
Betsy Gilliland
It’s a never-ending issue for anyone who teaches writing: How do I provide my students with enough feedback that they can learn and improve their skills without spending so much time that I can’t do anything else in my life? … Continue reading
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Tagged as academic writing, ELL writing, feedback on student writing, second language writing, SLW, teaching writing, writing assessment
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On Campus and Beyond: From Speaking to Writing, Part 2
Elena Shvidko
In my previous blog (Part 1), I provided a few suggestions on how speaking activities from two units in the ESL speaking class that I taught this summer could be adjusted and implemented in a writing course. My goal was … Continue reading
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Learning Collocations for Effective Writing
Elena Shvidko
In a previous post, I talked about the components of word knowledge, which include meaning, orthography, pronunciation, part of speech, morphology, register, collocations, and connotation. Today I’d like to elaborate on collocations, which I think is one of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged as academic English, collocations, concordances, evergreen, second language writing, SLW
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3 Writing Activities Using New Year Resolutions for ELLs
Elena Shvidko
As the end of the year is rapidly approaching, a lot of us start thinking about our New Year resolutions: things we want to change, goals we want to reach, personal qualities we want to develop, places we want to … Continue reading
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Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
Elena Shvidko
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” a quote from Leonardo da Vinci, for me refers to the simplicity of language, which I would like to reflect on in today’s blog entry. I’ll start with a personal experience. When I was working on … Continue reading
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Elements of Primary Research in Writing Class
Elena Shvidko
Engaging learners in the meaningful use of English outside the classroom is one of the aims of any language course. However, this goal is hard to achieve sometimes, especially in those contexts where the target language is not the dominant … Continue reading
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Tagged as classroom research, classroom surveys, elena shvidko, ESL writing, research, second language writing, SLW
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