AI in ESL is no longer a new topic for discussion. Both educators and learners have come to terms with it, and many may agree that using AI effectively and…
I’ve been thinking about whether to help my Literacy students with prompting, and with the actual answers during an assessment task. On task rubrics, there’s usually a section where the…
You might have watched it happen: You’re mid-explanation, working through a grammar point with real care, and you can see the exact moment your class checks out. Then, five minutes…
I teach Literacy and CLB 1. Pictures can help students understand, but I have found that having a speaker and audio version of the students’ language is also very useful.…
In language teaching, considerable time and energy are often devoted to planning the beginning and middle of a lesson. Teachers carefully select engaging warm-up activities, activate background knowledge, introduce vocabulary,…
Imagine two learners are heads-down on a group task, and you catch a quick exchange between them in Tagalog or Mandarin before they switch back to English. Maybe this is not as…
