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List of Esl Resources

Establishing Rapport (adult learners).
“To build rapport with adults in the learning environment, use positive nonverbal communication, deal with the whole person, address learners as equals, share authority, and employ informal room arrangements such as placing all the chairs in a circle, in a U, or around a table...
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Learning Modes-Young learners vs adults
When you walk into a classroom of beginning learners, you will quickly notice that the activities are varied, exciting, and typically short lived, in hopes to keep the attention of the energized and full of life students...
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Motivating students
Inspiring a high level of motivation among students of all ages and maintaining it, is an ongoing challenge for even the most experienced and skilled teachers...
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The Role Of The Teacher
The role of the teacher has significantly changed for past few years due to advent of new technology...
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Spanish vs. English
One of the biggest issues facing the United States is the number of immigrants coming to the US from Mexico and Central America...
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Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner’s (1983, 1998) multiple intelligences theory (MIT) postulates the existence of eight intelligences on the basis of “distinct sets of processing operations applied in (culturally valued) activities”...
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Obstacles Faced by TEFL Instructors Teaching Abroad
A career in TEFL is one that many people could find attractive for different reasons – a passion for teaching, a passion for English, a desire to live abroad, or even a desire to meet people around the world...
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Classroom Management
Classroom Management is a vital skill involving various aspects, which are to be judiciously used for effective and successful teaching...
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Games in the classroom
In the following document I hope to demonstrate some the advantages of using games within a classroom environment for game based language learning...
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Games in the ESL and EFL classroom
In a traditional English language classroom the student’s curriculum focuses on grammar, reading, vocabulary and rigid repetitive drills...
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Computer Aided Language Learning
Computer aided language learning, or ‘CALL’ which started to flourish in the 1980’s, continues to be a very beneficial field of research...
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Child Development
As a parent and an educator I have learned much about child development and am learning more everyday...
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Games in the classroom
The following contain the results of my reading in to sources pertaining to the use of games in English classes...
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