Category: Language Skills

For quite some time now, internet access and free Wi-Fi have become a regular feature of academia. While the advantages are undeniable, teachers and professors worry about students’ inability to…

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…

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,…

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,…