Articles tagged ‘Young Learners’
Interview With Cairogal, EFL Instructor With Experience In The UAE, Egypt and Spain
By Katie | October 8th, 2007 |
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Cairogal, who writes Here, there, and everywhere and is also one of the more prolific TEFL Logue commenters, has worked in Spain and the Middle East and is finishing up an MA TESOL. I recently asked her if she’d be willing to share her experience and advice for others in an email interview…how did she [...]
Learn Each Others’ Names Or Else!
By Katie | September 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I’m not usually an advocate of violence, nor would I like to imagine the TEFL Logue as some kind of cookbook for student abuse. So I’ll distance myself from the activity I’m about to present by letting you know that it was a Belgian colleague who either came up with it or passed it [...]
TEFL News Hot Off The Press: August 27
By Katie | August 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
From a rather unlikely source, the New Yorker, fiction with the ESL classroom as a backdrop.
“It seems so logical, and I don’t know why we haven’t done it all along”: pupils in Georgia put language skills to use. (you have to register to read it)
English language requirement enforced for nursing student applicants in Dubai.
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ESL In Arizona
By Katie | July 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Starting in September, school-age English language learners in Arizona will be spending four hours a day in classes specifically devoted to language learning; previously they spent only one hour a day in language lessons and the remainder in the same classes as their native English speaking peers.
This article doesn’t provide any idea of the students’ [...]
Resource: Larry Ferlazzo’s “Website Of The Day” Blog
By Katie | April 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Recently I stumbled across Larry Ferlazzo’s Website Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL & EFL and was impressed with the collection of resources available on his English for beginners/lower intermediate page.
As it’s a blog dedicated to “websites of the day”, the main component of it is obviously links to other sites; he points out [...]
Around The Web On TEFL: February 28
By Katie | February 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Get some lateral thinking puzzles while you appreciate the photography at gdimension.
It makes me proud to be from the Chicago burbs: read about an honest-to-goodness immersion program. In the US. In a class with about half native English speakers and half native Spanish speakers.
Are foreign films taking off in the US?
EU businesses are [...]
