TESOL Language Training

Forming negatives is a largely rule-bound, mechanical manoeuvre and is thus is easy to teach and to test. Underlying this concern with how to form negatives is, it seems to me, the belief that negatives are used basically as reactions - in the answers to questions or in order to contradict ...

Mentally I was unable to take in the pictures on my tv screen on Tuesday. Physically, however, the reaction was immediate. I started shaking uncontrollably

CALL (Computer-aided language learning) will never replace the classroom, just as the classroom will never replace the real world. CALL can, however, provide people with certain needs with an effective study tool.

In these articles I have concentrated more on advanced learners or ESP. To help rectify that, I am including a list of 60 questions for elementary level.
They are intended to help
help your

students
practise the
language of
daily life using some of the basic verb structures they will have ...

Being able to describe a sequence of events is a key requirement in academic writing; it could be describing an experiment; giving the background to a topic; relating an incident.

Description in academic papers should be factual and objective

What struck me about the problems students faced in writing was not so much their deficiencies in language structure (although they were serious enough) as their almost total lack of awareness about what constituents go into an academic paper.

Learning a foreign language is just one aspect of learning to communicate with other nationalities. English is well established as the language of international business, but, when we travel and meet people from different backgrounds we find that linguistic obstacles are not the only barriers to understanding.

The communicative and humanistic approaches to language training have shown us the importance of setting up genuine dialogue between learner and trainer and among learners themselves. When, as trainers, we ask a series of questions in the manner of quiz masters, where we know the answer and watch while the learner ...

The great advantage of games is that students become so engaged in the activity that they use the target language spontaneously. It's amazing what strategies they can find within themselves to put their ideas across, even if their knowledge is limited. I use a range of games for a variety of ...