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Teaching Vocabulary - 238
Vocabulary is a set of words known to a person that are part of a specific language...
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Teaching abroad
Most people who want to teach English overseas will eventually come to a point when they consider taking a TEFL training course...
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Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: the Use of Games as Effective ESL Tools
Classrooms are places for seriousness, but they are also places for serious enjoyment...
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Motivation in the Classroom
I am writing about motivation in the classroom, for the purpose of addressing the problem for teachers and to give some strategies that can be used to assist the teacher to overcome the problems...
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Problems for Learners of ESL in Malawi
I have been living in Malawi for the past several years, and, though I am definitely far from being an expert on any of the subjects mentioned here, I would like to share a few of my observations on the difficulties that Malawian students of English as a second language may encounter...
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Teaching English to Japanese Students
Teaching English to Japanese students can be very difficult because of cultural and lingual differences...
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Building Teachers Confidence in the Classroom
Anyone who has ever had to stand up in front of a group of people to give a speech knows it can be a daunting task...
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A comparative look at Teaching Children vs. Adults
Teaching English has become a major industry worldwide, with countless adult and child students enrolled in courses worldwide...
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Conducting a Student Profile, and Receiving A Lot More
?You learn a lot in your classes, but you can?t learn about human relationships and about life from a book...
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Preconceptions
Isn?t it funny how our preconceptions are often way off course? Certain things we?re preconditioned to think, be it because of cultural influences, peer/family influence or experiences, and, more often than not, we don?t question these; Tesco and Wal-Mart are Mecca?s; McDonald?s food tastes amazing; being quiet makes you a good student...
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Foreign Language Experience
There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language...
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TEFL for non native English speaking teachers
The human mind loves simplicity and to generalize complicated matters...
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Difference between formal and non-formal language
To discuss the differences between formal and non-formal language, it must first be clarified that this does not necessarily relate to the use of ?slang? terms or idioms...
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Dictionary Training
One of the worst teaching experience is having a class come to an abrupt halt while someone searches a dictionary for a specific word, one usually not found in the end anyway...
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Teaching mixed ability classes
Students come from all walks of life, no person is the same whether it?s personality, ability or background...
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Teaching Grammar
?A recent study suggests that teaching grammar to schoolchildren has no discernible effect on their writing skills, so why should it be of any more use in the ELT classroom?? asks Luke Meddings in an article on Friday February 4, 2005 in the Guardian Unlimited...
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Teaching vocabulary
It is common knowledge that learning grammar can be a complex process...
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Teaching Classes of Mixed Abilities
When individuals are grouped together, especially in a learning environment, there will always be a mixture of abilities...
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