What is Motivation? Motivation is a kind of enthusiasm within an individual that arouses and maintains behavior towards a goal. That is to say: motivation is goal-directed behavior. Motivation is a kind of energy within an individual that determines to what extent he/she will involve in a task and how long he/she will keep concentrated. […]
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+111 Sure-Fire Active Learning Activities That Work in EFL Classes
Many teachers think that students learn while listening to their explanations in the classroom. Students may store the new information for a short time, but this information will not be stored in the long-term memory until they do something with it. Within this context, active learning is encouraged. Active learning occurs when the teacher uses […]
These Steps to Help Slow Learners Worked For Me. They Can Work For You, Too!
Teaching English to young learners is a challenge you may have faced, like me, during a certain period of time along with your ELT career or perhaps you are still facing it and keep complaining of some kind of students you describe as low achievers or slow learners. The same happened to me for some […]
10 Alternative Career Paths out of ELT
Some teachers of English love being in the classroom and working with students, so they spend their whole lives teaching while there are some teachers taught English for a while and then changed their careers making use of the skills that being a teacher helps them to acquire. There are also some teachers who wanted […]
Writing Effective Test Questions: The Definitive Guide. Now Released
I’d like to announce that my new eBook: “Writing Effective Test Items: The Definitive Guide” is now RELEASED. What is This eBook About? It is a practical guide to constructing effective test questions. It provides teachers with step-by-step instructions they need to go deeper, further and faster toward making a success in preparing effective classroom […]
Top 7 Questioning Techniques in the Classroom
As a teacher, you always use questions in the classroom. There are lots of reasons for using them. You could use questions to: engage your students, check for understanding and comprehension, seek opinions, encourage creative and critical thinking, review information, help students see other ways of thinking. The techniques that you should use in questioning depends […]
9 Best Ways to Finish EFL Lessons
It is as important to end an EFL lesson effectively as you start it. Your main aim is that your students leave the classroom with a good feeling about themselves and their learning. They should end their EFL lessons with a sense of achievement and the knowledge that they have made progress in their English. […]
13 EFL Quickie Warmers to Start Your Class
A warmer is a motivating starting activity better called: zealous, suggestive, dynamic and enthusiastic. It is an activity done at the beginning of the lesson to activate students to become animated in the language class. It is considered as a tool designed to attract students’ attention. Advantages of warmers. For teachers, warmers enable them to: […]
Why and How to Use Songs in English Language Classes
Songs are a useful tool in language acquisition. Language teachers can use them to open or close their lessons, to introduce topics or themes, to add variety or change the pace, to present new vocabulary or recycle known language structures. Simple, repetitive songs often contain a recurrent grammatical pattern which is useful to teach (especially […]
Four Factors Make TEFL a Failure in Most Countries
EFL is taught in most countries as a compulsory subject. However, most students in these countries do not show a good English proficiency or ability in using English in daily-life communications. It may mean that there is some kind of failure of TEFL in these countries. The following are four factors that may cause this […]