Explore tips, strategies, and inspiring stories on teaching and learning English. From classroom materials to language acquisition research, explore valuable resources to enhance your English teaching and learning journey.
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Crafting a needs assessment
It’s important to create a useful needs assessment. Let’s explore a needs assessment I developed for an online English for professional purposes course.
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Activity: Describing trends and data
Explore an activity developed for an online English for Professional Purposes course. The activity features key vocabulary for describing trends and data.
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3 Teaching resources for when you’re short on time
These three teaching resources can help you prepare for class when you’re short on planning time. Explore these resources with me!
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Exploring Google’s NotebookLM for language teaching and learning
Explore Google’s NotebookLM with me! We’ll look at some of the basic features and how they might be useful for language teaching.
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Creating learning outcomes with the Global Scale of English toolkit
Explore the Global Scale of English with me! The GSE toolkit can help language teachers generate learning outcomes.
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Back in the classroom
In this post, I explore the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English in Germany, from classroom experiences to career reflections.
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Social reading to engage with global issues
Struggling to discuss global issues in language class? Social reading & annotation can help! This post explores an activity using real-world texts to spark deeper discussions & critical thinking. Learn how to bring global issues to life in your classroom!
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Building community through group discussions
Discover how group discussions in English classrooms can enhance learning experiences and foster competence and community among students.
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What is a Lexile Level anyway?
There are many different ways to measure how easy or difficult a text is to read, and the Lexile Level system is one tool you can use to compare the difficulty of a text with other texts.