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Customization: Can You Serve Too Much?
Serve your Client. But can you do too much? In an English class situation, I strongly believe that course content should be shaped to student needs as much, and as often as possible. Why? In my experience, the more a student’s class work is related to reality (what they do everyday in English) the easier...
Effective teleconference classes
Following a post over at OUP Global: Teaching from a distance via videoconferencing, I’d like to add some more ideas taken from a conference call class with a client I just had. Keep it short. I’ve heard some clients say that their conference calls go on and on and on. Hours. That’s far too long...
How to Help Adult ESL students beat fear
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Adult ESL students, in my experience anyway, have multiple obstacles to beat in order to successfully learn a second language. (In this case, English.) They have schedules to deal with, deadlines, bosses, and coworkers to name a few. But the biggest, and often ugliest one, the fear of failure. (AKA: looking like a moron in...
Keep Proficiency Development Strategy Simple
Just read a great post over at Oxford University Press English Language teaching blog, and would like to share a quote which I think sums up the way great teachers should go about their class work. “The whole point of extensive reading — and how it achieves improvements in language proficiency — is that students read...
Technology and the Need for Ongoing Professional Development
Attack the myths. “Machines dont fight wars, people do, and they use their minds,” was a statement that Col. John Boyd USAF whom Vandergriff cites used in his advocacy for development of people as well as aircraft and weaponry. In short, technology is only as good as the people using it. Therefore, invest in people...
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