Articles tagged ‘Listening’

Time Management In The Classroom

By Katie | December 19th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Managing class time is important – you have a limited time with your students and they generally pay a lot to be there. Most of them are not there for a hobby or for fun but because they truly need the language for their work or life.
Planning is imperative and though I have found [...]

Teaching Listening: What To Do About Boring CDs And Cassettes

By Katie | December 16th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

There’s been a good deal of debate (well, okay, some) in the EFL world about listening in class: how can teachers incorporate more modern methods of listening, like podcasts or authentic audio material, into the curriculum, and should they dispense with the outdated book-accompanying CD’s or cassettes altogether?
Authentic audio materials, such as songs, films, or [...]

Technology In The EFL Classroom

By Katie | December 10th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

ESL Pundit expresses dismay that the language classroom seems slow to catch on to technological advances, notably as they relate to using realia such as podcasts in class.
I’d second the notion of bringing authentic materials into class, but I don’t know if I can be quite as enthusiastic about incorporating technology at the exclusion [...]

Daily Dose: November 28

By Katie | November 28th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Changing that pesky English spelling for the EU?
It’s not just Americans…Brits need to learn foreign languages too.
Speaking second languages at work when not everyone can understand.
Practical tips for a good communicative activity from ESL Lesson Plan: Describing a picture scene.
How to improve your students’ English using tape recorders from ESL Pundit.
Some thoughts on setting objectives [...]

Recycling Classroom Activities

By Katie | November 25th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

The more intrepid TEFL Logue readers will be happy to hear that my search for some recycling containers near where I live has ended well. This post, however, is related to the classroom.
But…recycling classroom activities? By this I mean using activities more than once – maybe with the same group (adapting a standard [...]

Daily Dose: November 23

By Katie | November 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Get an English language summary of an article in Korean about EFL teachers in Korea.
Blogging is a think of the past…now it’s on to vlogging.
ESL Pundit comes up with a good one: audio books in class.
What would Aristotle do? TEFL Version.

Scammers target undocumented workers in the US by asking for donations for an ESL [...]

TEFL Games

By Katie | November 8th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

…or better yet just “moving” activities. These are not all competitions, but all involve physical components - like standing up and moving at least - to some extent.
Running Dictation
Students work in pairs. There is a text/conversation/list of numbered sentences up on the wall, ideally more than one copy so people don’t have to [...]

Why TEFL? (Part 2)

By Katie | October 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »

If Why TEFL? (Part 1) didn’t convince you, read on…
Teaching English as a foreign language may well provide the greatest opportunity to meet and interact with local people without being fluent in the local language. Other travel jobs might give you the opportunity to see a place or to meet people – both locals [...]

Daily Dose: October 11

By Katie | October 11th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

I’ve gotten behind on delivering the daily smorgesboard of TEFL links…wait no more:
Get the low down on where and how to find work in Oxford, UK at ESL Lesson Plan.
Have a laugh at some comical English language notices up around the world courtesy of Toby’s Journal.
Check out some ideas for practicing numbers as well [...]

Teaching Listening

By Katie | October 4th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Teaching listening can be hard for teachers and students both. Students who are fine with speaking at their own pace and reading may have trouble listening to a recording that is a regular-speed conversation. And although native speaker teachers are often hired in part because of their unadulterated accents, one of the first [...]