Genre in the Foreign Language Classroom ( written by Kim Bradford-Watts )
In the EFL situation, we find ourselves working from both directions: we pick and choose specific genres as the need arises, and we also work from generic values. On the way, we occasionally stop and explore genre colonies more closely, depending on student [...]
Teaching English Tips to Stay in Control of a Large Class
Teaching English with games is becoming standard through
out ESL classrooms of the world. And this is good news,
because children love to learn through games, and become
much more motivated students as a result. However games
often make children excited, and if you have a large class
you need [...]
Teaching Research Skills to Students For the Twenty-First Century
Many teachers are afraid to allow their students to use the Internet to write research papers. Teacher complaints that I have heard regarding this topic are: “Students plagiarize by cutting and pasting information from websites.” “Students will not search beyond the first few sites they Google.” “Students [...]
“Tag questions” are one of the more difficult areas for ESL and EFL students. They know that you are asking a question, but the difficulty is in figuring out whether their answer should be a positive (yes) or a negative (no) answer. This is the first problem.
Understanding intonation is the other difficult area of tag [...]
