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Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups - TEFL Blog
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups
Stories expose the students to more language, they engage and motivate the learner, they can be used to teach the structure of a language and the concepts about print which may be different between cultures. Stories with images can also help the students anchor their knowledge about the text. Listening to stories also helps the students hear accents and how words are pronounced. However, it is important to choose the correct book or story for the students you are working with. If familiar storylines are chosen the student is more likely to understand the story. It is also important to take into consideration the interests of the students and to find text on those topics.
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Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings - TEFL Blog
Fri, 29 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings
Learning is always hard especially learning something new such as English learning. English is a different new language compared with Chinese, so when we are learning, definitely we will meet all kinds of difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
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Most beginners think listening is the most difficult part of English learning.
Speaking can be improved dramatically from zero in a short time but it's quite difficult to speak accurately.
For most Chinese people, English reading is not as difficult as listening or speaking.
Writing is always the hardest part of English for Chinese students.
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How can developmental psycholinguistic research help foreign English students? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 Joanna Dineva
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How can developmental psycholinguistic research help foreign English students?
Undeniably animals communicate in a variety of ways: bee dance for honeybees, bird song for aviary species, pheromones for ants, etc. However human language remains unique in its complexity and variety. Human language has the unique characteristic of being able to describe abstract concepts such as love and belief and temporal displacements such as past events or future plans. Even our closest evolutionary relatives are not able to acquire such complex language structures.
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Language is a Uniquely Human Cognitive Skill
L1 Language Acquisition and Selective Hearing for the Sounds of Our Native Tongue
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How Developmental Psycholinguistic Research Facilitate Learning of The English Language Phonology For Foreign Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
How Developmental Psycholinguistic Research Facilitate Learning of The English Language Phonology For Foreign Students
Language is a uniquely human cognitive skill. Undeniably animals communicate in a variety of ways: bee dance for honeybees, bird song for aviary species, pheromones for ants, etc. However human language remains unique in its complexity and variety. Human language has the unique characteristic of being able to describe abstract concepts such as love and belief and temporal displacements such as past events or future plans. Even our closest evolutionary relatives are not able to acquire such complex language structures. Scientists have attempted to teach different ape species human language, and despite years of... [Read more]
The Importance of Grammar and How We Teach it - TEFL Blog
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Importance of Grammar and How We Teach it
Teaching grammar is one of the most challenging things for a teacher of English. As a student, it is essential to learn grammar as this gives you accuracy both in writing and speaking. This applies to every language, not only to English.
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Grammar vs. Math
Balanced Approach to Teaching
Verb as a Core of Language Teaching
Approaches to Teaching Grammar
Past Perfect Past Tense Present Future
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Teaching Vocabulary: Is it essential for English learning? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 09 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Teaching Vocabulary: Is it essential for English learning?
Just as quarks are the building blocks of atoms and the periodic table of elements, letters are the building blocks of words. And just as the 118 elements are the foundation of our physical life, the 26 letters of the English alphabet are the foundation of the 470 000 words English language (Wikipedia, 2019), so that each word with all its variation and diversity is part of a living and evolving cosmos of vocabulary.
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Vocabulary teaching methods
An effective way to teach vocabulary
Important skills
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Reading as a Skill to Enhance General Language Ability - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading as a Skill to Enhance General Language Ability
Reading affects language acquisition based on the level of the content read, the type of content, and the reader's external sources of language acquisition. This summative text will explain the different difficulties that can arise when any English learner uses reading as their sole or primary language acquisition mode.
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Anticipated Problems
Formal Vocabulary and Structures
The Problem of Spoken Language
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How Teaching Slang Can Benefit Your ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
How Teaching Slang Can Benefit Your ESL Students
Stepping onto my flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile, I was confident in my Spanish skills. After all, I had taken nearly seven years of Spanish classes in middle and high school. However, when I landed I found, not only did I not understand 80% of what my host family said to me, they couldn't understand me either.
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"Learning slang words is immensely helpful."
"I was more motivated to retain these pieces of vocabulary and try them out in an attempt to sound more natural."
"Learning slang can also open up the conversation for cultural exchange."
"There are many activities that could be used to teach slang words."
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