EFL/ESL Teaching Techniques
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Authentic Materials / Realia
- Effective Ways to Use Authentic Materials with ESL/EFL Students
- Authentic Materials and Cultural Content in EFL Classrooms
- Using Creative Thinking to Find New Uses for Realia
Autonomy
- Three Activities to Promote Learners' Autonomy
- Getting Students Actively Involved Using "The Mistake Buster" Technique
Becoming a Better Teacher
- Matching Teaching Styles with Learning Styles in East Asian Contexts
- Team Teaching Tips for Foreign Language Teachers
- The Importance of Eye Contact in the Classroom
Business English
- My Philosophy for Teaching English for Business
- Using Authentic Business Transcripts in the ESL Classroom
- Teaching Business Communication to LEP Students
- Frameworking in Business English Classes
- Teaching Tips for ESL University Business English Instructors
- Methodology for Using Case Studies in the Business English Language Classroom
Classroom Management
- Perpetual Motion: Keeping the Language Classroom Moving
- Interesting Ways to Call Roll in Japan
- Let Your Students Teach Their Class
- Encouraging Students to Interact with the Teacher
- What to Do with Failing Students
- Cultural Kickboxing in the ESL Classroom: Encouraging Active Participation
- A Group Introduction Activity to Create a Safe Atmosphere
Computers
- Using Presentation Software to Enhance Language Learning
- Quick Tips for the CALL Laboratory
- Using PowerPoint for ESL Teaching
Conversation / Oral English
- Encouraging English Expression through Script-based Improvisations
- Teaching Conversation Skills With Content Based Materials
- Using Pair Taping
- Teaching Conversation Strategies Through Pair-Taping
- Boosting Speaking Fluency through Partner Taping
- Overcoming Chinese-English Colloquial Habits in Writing
- Communicative Language Teaching in a Multimedia Language Lab
- It's on the Cards: Adapting a Board-game Communicative Activity
- Leaving the Room: An Introduction to Theme-Based Oral English
- The Talking Stick: An American Indian Tradition in the ESL Classroom
- Role Playing/Simulation
- Brainstorming Before Speaking Tasks
- Teach Students to Interact, Not Just Talk
- Five Steps to Using Your Textbook to Build a More Dynamic EFL Conversation Class
- Dialog Performances: Developing Effective Communication Strategies for Non-English Majors in Japanese Universities
- Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology
- Designing Simple Interactive Tasks for Small Groups
- Tips for Teaching Conversation in the Multilingual ESL Classroom
- Teaching "How are You" to ESL Students
- Using Games to Promote Communicative Skills in Language Learning
- Facilitating English Conversation Development in Large Classrooms
- Helping EFL/ESL Students by Asking Quality Questions
- Successful Classroom Discussions with Adult Korean ESL/EFL Learners
- Increasing Authentic Speech in Classroom Discussions
- A Practical and Effective Way to Enhance the ESL Students' Oral Competence
Culture
- Practical Techniques for Teaching Culture in the EFL Classroom
- Role Play in Teaching Culture: Six Quick Steps for Classroom Implementation
- Compliments: Integrating Cultural Values into Oral English Classes
- Guidelines to Evaluate Cultural Content in Textbooks
Drama
Four Skills
- Using Picture Dictation Exercises for Practising All Four Skills
- Teaching the Four Skills in the Primary EFL Classroom
Grammar
- The Structural Drill in Remedial Teaching
- Classroom Techniques for Contextualization:
- A Technique for Practising Conditional Sentences
- Grammar Correction in ESL/EFL Writing Classes May Not Be Effective
- Doing Things with Sentences in the ESL Classroom
- Teaching ESL Students to "Notice" Grammar
- Using Simple Poems to Teach Grammar
- Communicative Grammar -- It's Time to Talk.
- Empowering English Teachers to Grapple with Errors in Grammar
- Helping Students with Modals
Humor / Humour
Ideas
Internet
- Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction
- Some Possibilities for Using On-line Newspapers in the ESL Classroom
- Getting Your Class Connected
- Activities for Using Junk Email in the ESL/EFL Classroom
- Let the E-mail Software Do the Work: Time Saving Features for the Writing Teacher
- Discussion Forums for ESL Learning
- Report on a Penpal Project, and Tips for Penpal-Project Success
- Using E-mail in Foreign Language Teaching: Rationale and Suggestions
- How to Build a Multimedia Website for Language Study
- Making Chat Activities with Native Speakers Meaningful for EFL Learners
- Interactivity Tools in Online Learning
- Teaching Search Engines to ESL Students: Avoiding the Avalanche
- Teaching EFL/ESL Students How to Use Search Engines and Develop their English
- Creating a Learning Community Through Electronic Journaling
- A Model of Team Teaching in a Web-mediated EAP Course
- Using LiveJournal for Authentic Communication in EFL Classes
- Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes
Listening
- Getting the Most from Textbook Listening Activities
- Training for Impromptu Speaking and Testing Active Listening
- Dictation Drawing
- Real Audio to Augment Real Listening in the ESL Classroom
- Self-Instruction by Audio Cassette
- Dictation as a Language Learning Device
- Focused Listening with Songs
- Listening Activities for Effective Top-down Processing
Material Development / Activity Ideas
- Redesigning Non-Task-Based Materials to Fit a Task-Based Framework
- A Holistic Classroom Activity - The Class Survey
Motivation
- Sustaining an Interest in Learning English and Increasing the Motivation to Learn English: An Enrichment Program
- Helping ESL Learners to See Their Own Improvement
- Communicating Success
- Creative and Critical Thinking in Language Classrooms
- Learner Training for Learner Autonomy on Summer Language Courses
- Encouraging Students to Become Stakeholders in the ESL Classroom
- Motivation in the ESL Classroom
Music and Songs
- Music and Song in Discussion
- Song Dictation
- Teaching Phrasal Verbs Using Songs
- Helping Prospective EFL Teachers Learn How to Use Songs in Teaching Conversation Classes
Pronunciation
- Some Techniques for Teaching Pronunciation
- Testing Some Suprasegmental Features of English Speech
- Teaching English Intonation to EFL/ESLStudents
- Reverse Accent Mimicry: An Accent Reduction Technique for Second Language Learners
- A Quick Way to Improve /r/ and /l/ Pronunciation
Public Speaking
- Teaching Debate to ESL Students: A Six-Class Unit
- Guiding ESL Students Towards Independent Speech Making
- A Genre Approach to Oral Presentations
Reading
- Teaching EFL/ESL Students How to Read Time and Newsweek
- Graffiti for ESL Readers
- Reading and Writing through Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- How to Read Nonfictional English Text Faster and More Effectively
- What Do We Test When We Test Reading Comprehension?
- Teaching ESL Reading Using Computers
- An Integrated Approach to Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom
- A Fun Reading Quiz Game
- Reading Aloud (Out Loud) in Conversational English Classes
- Using Children's Literature with Young Learners
- Using News Stories in the ESL Classroom
Testing
- A Method for Oral Testing in University English Programs at Korean Universities
- Measuring Word Recognition Using a Picture
Video
- Developing Film Study Guides
- Developing an English for Specific Purposes Course Using a Learner Centered Approach: A Russian Experience
- Videotaping an English Mini-drama in Your Classroom
- Using CNN News Video in the EFL Classroom
- Content Video in the EFL Classroom
- Captioned Video: Making it Work for You
- Using Movie Trailers in an ESL CALL Class
- Video Production in the Foreign Language Classroom: Some Practical Ideas
Vocabulary
- Personal Vocabulary Notes
- Learner-centered Vocabulary Building Practice
- A Learner-Centred Approach to Vocabulary Review Using Bingo
- Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar
- Deductive & Inductive Lessons for Saudi EFL Freshmen Students
- Warm-up Exercises in Listening Classes
- Getting Japanese Children to Make Use of Naturally-sounding English in the Classroom
- Vocabulary Teaching Using Student-Written Dialogues
- Drilling Can Be Fun
- The Use of Corpora in the Vocabulary Classroom
- Building Vocabulary Through Prefixes, Roots & Suffixes
Writing
- Secret Partner Journals for Motivation, Fluency and Fun
- A Peer Review Activity for Essay Organization
- Making Jigsaw Activities Using Newspaper Articles
- Using Postcards in the Classroom
- Less Is More: Summary Writing and Sentence Structure in the Advanced ESL Classroom
- Teaching Integrated Writing Skills
- Correcting Students' Writing
- Using E-mail in EFL Writing Classes
- Approaching Writing Skills through Fairy Tales
- Teaching ESL/EFL Students to Write Better
- English Writing Program for Engineering Students
- Freewriting, Prompts and Feedback
- Portfolios and Process Writing: A Practical Approach
- Interactive Writing in the EFL Class: A Repertoire of Tasks
- Using Cooperative Learning to Integrate Thinking and Information Technology in a Content-Based Writing Lesson
- Encouraging Engineering Students to Write Simple Essays
- Integrating Writing with Reading
- The Process Writing Method
- Suggestions for Evaluating ESL Writing Holistically
- Developing Writing Skills in a Foreign Language via the Internet
- Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs
- A Fun Way to Generate Ideas for Comparison Paragraphs
- Seeing is Understanding: Improving Coherence in Students' Writing
- Developing Task-based Writing with Adolescent EFL Students
- Providing Feedback on ESL Students' Written Assignments
- Simple Steps to Successful Revision in L2 Writing
- Teaching TESOL Undergraduates to Organize and Write Literature Reviews
Other
- Maximizing Study Trips Abroad
- The Application of Universal Instructional Design to ESL Teaching
- BaFa BaFa: Does it Work with University EFL Learners?
- A Tutor-Guided Learning Scheme in a Self-Access Centre
- Improving Science Students' Fluency through Project Work
- Using Service-Learning as Part of an ESL Program
- Incorporating Critical Thinking Skills Development into ESL/EFL Courses
- Helping ESL Learners to Minimize Collocational Errors
- Using Concept Maps to Gauge Students' Understanding
- Content Based ESL Curriculum and Academic Language Proficiency
- Using Pictures from Magazines
- Enhancing Critical Thinking with Structured Controversial Dialogues
- Using Expectations to Improve Learning
- Integrating Language Learning Strategy Instruction into ESL/EFL Lessons
- Using Checklists to "Standardise" Content
- Games in the ESL and EFL Class
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