Category: Language Skills

In ESL teaching, we often focus on improving students’ language skills, and yet, despite well-structured lessons and carefully designed activities, many teachers encounter a familiar pattern: some students remain quiet, avoid participation, or contribute minimally,…

I found an effective way to engage students in reading is for the teacher to write about them and their classmates. In my Literacy/CLB 1 class, I wrote about 9 to…

A teaching tool that I found effective in my Literacy/ CLB 1 class is the use of dry-erase boards. I give each student a dry-erase board and markers. Some students,…

I teach literacy students, but, it would also be correct to say that every day, they teach me. They teach me something about themselves and about myself. I use my…

I found an effective technique for students to learn phrases; it involves partnering them up and exchanging dialogue.  This forces them not only to practice the phrases, but to create…

The onslaught of generative artificial intelligence, GenAI, is going to be even more confusing for educators, administrators and learners this September because they will be bombarded with contradictory messages. Social…