Learning Styles VS. Learning Strategies Broadly speaking, learning styles can be defined as general approaches to language learning, while learning strategies are specific ways learners choose to cope with language tasks in particular contexts. Learning strategies are the ways in which students learn, remember information, and study for tests. They refer to the actions and […]
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The Most Useful 10 Symbols to Use for Correcting Students’ Writing
Correcting errors and giving feedback on writing can be tricky. If you correct everything, there is a danger of covering the work in comments and ‘red ink’. This can be both demotivating and unhelpful because the students either give up or they just write out the piece again with all your corrections inserted. Alternatively, if […]
Free Download: “How to Make the Best CV”
Your curriculum vitae (CV) is like a mirror reflecting who you are. The more effective is it, the greater is your chances to grab the opportunity! A great CV is your first opportunity to make an impression on a hiring manager or a recruiter so it’s important to try your best to make this first […]
When to Use Students’ Mother Tongue in EFL Classes
A teacher should insist on and encourage using English in primary or low-level classes so that students: will have the opportunity to practice using English in context. will improve their listening skills. learn and practice common or repeated classroom language or routines in English. (e.g. Please open your books on page, … etc.). A teacher […]
Criteria to Create Effective Teaching Aids For the Classroom
Using educational teaching aids can boost student success in the classroom. These aids reinforce what a teacher says and ensures the main points are understood. Educational teaching aids signal students to the important information and allows them to experience something that is abstract in real life. They engage students’ other senses in the learning process […]
Motivation in the Classroom: What?, Why? And How?
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. […]
+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. […]