It is your right after a lot of effort you did as a teacher to relax during summer vacation but it is also a chance to reflect on the previous year, prepare yourself for the coming year and develop your teaching skills. Here are the best seven things...
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20/05/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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A good language test should have a positive effect on learning and teaching. Such a test should aim at specifying areas of difficulty. The whole class or individual students may experience so additional practice and corrective exercises should be given. A good language test should also measure students’...
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29/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Assessment procedures should be used to achieve three main purposes: When assessing learning outcomes, the teacher should be concerned with four main decisions. These decisions relate to the following broad four questions: Teachers can use tests and examinations to be aware of: When designing tests, teachers need to...
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27/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Most students struggle to communicate effectively in some social situations because most teachers focus overly on grammar and often neglect teaching students functional language. The heart of functional language is understanding the implied social meaning of certain expressions. We use language mainly to perform some kind of communicative...
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13/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Language Functions
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Most students who have learned English as a foreign language often use only three tenses: present, past and future. They rarely use the present perfect tense as it is one the tenses that is soon forgotten or replaced easily with simple past tense. Students don’t realize the importance of...
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07/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Grammar
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03/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Premium Content, Teach Vocabulary
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As a teacher of English, you need to test your students’ English periodically to know to what extent they learned the language. Learning English should include mainly learning vocabulary and grammar. In addition, you should test their reading comprehension and writing skills. If you want your test to...
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01/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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There are some important characteristics and skills which are a must for any teacher of English to do his job effectively. Without these things, it’s preferable for the person to try another job or for the teacher of English to teach any subject other than English language. These...
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28/02/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development, Uncategorized
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What does “Classroom Management” actually mean? Classroom management is the most important factor affecting student learning. It is the effective discipline in the classroom that provides a safe, comfortable learning environment, motivates your students, builds their self-esteem and encourages them to be imaginative and creative in daily lessons....
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05/12/2017 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management
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Do you allow students to chew gum or use mobiles in class? Why?! Simply because we have rules in our schools. As we have rules, we have to follow them. The first one who must follow these rules is YOU. If you don’t, you will lose respect for...
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30/09/2017 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management
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