500 Tips for TESOL Teachers

Chapter 2 Meeting Learners′ Needs 6 Responding to learning needs in the classroom 7 Using pair and group work 8 Working with lar ...

learners to feel uncomfortable or disadvantaged. We hope our suggestions will alert you to some ways around this. We continue by ...

do it. The satisfaction of finding a code which expresses the learners’ own meanings can make a piece of learning particularly m ...

practice. They also help learners to get used to working cooperatively and helping each other. The following tips should help yo ...

for others, you need to go with the feel of the class. If any groups have been working slowly, warn them a couple of minutes in ...

lesson. Keep a simple record of who you have asked, so that others can be invited on future occasions. No learner should have to ...

classroom. But if you are working, for example, with children or teenagers who have not chosen to study English and are unsure o ...

to them and ask, in a non-threatening way, what the problem is. Listen genuinely, but always move on to ask them what they can d ...

counterparts are ahead of them in other ways, such as a familiarity with computers and electronic communication. 3 Some mature l ...

pressures in their lives can affect the possibility of them meeting deadlines or targets. 11 Supporting learners away from home ...

be limits on what they find acceptable. Gather feedback on appropriate alternatives that could be built into menus and catering ...

of your own by questionnaire, too. The following suggestions may give you some ideas to incorporate into your own feedback quest ...

9 Avoid safe middle ground in scales. For example, the scale ‘strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree, strongly disagree’ may ...

18 Don’t accumulate piles of uninterpreted questionnaire data! It’s best to make a deliberate effort to produce a summary report ...

Chapter 3 Language Work in the Classroom 13 Teaching vocabulary 14 Teaching pronunciation 15 Teaching listening 16 Teaching read ...

learning. We end the chapter with some suggestions about how you can use games, role plays and that most commonly available reso ...

6 Spend some time on connotative meaning. You can turn connotation into a window on the target culture. Take a simple item like ...

1 Learn how to describe pronunciation. Familiarize yourself with the phonemic symbols for English, and with a system for describ ...

context. The sounds which make up words can change and, in some cases, even disappear, according to the context of pronunciation ...

5 Give learners a reason for listening. Before you play the recording you can give learners a task based on what they will hear, ...