What’s the difference between language teaching and language coaching? A trainer transfers knowledge and skills to learners. It’s as if the learner were a passive passenger in her language acquisition journey. A coach puts the learner directly in the driver’s seat by pushing her to accept responsibility for learning. A...
Bus Eng teachers: Are you keeping up with the times? Read about my EdTech survey and hear from an expert in pedagogy on how the times are changing in EFL.
As EFL teachers, maintaining motivation and high energy levels can be difficult sometimes. We work alone and prepare alone. What’s always worked for me to pull myself up out of the doldrums was to look for inspiration from another teacher. Often times it was a colleague showing me the latest business English...
Want to make your ESL students sit up and listen in class? Just announce ‘We’ve got a video today’. A video, and especially a funny video, instantly perks up the hardest to inspire students. Learn to find and download the perfect ESL video without a YouTube Premium account. It doesn’t...
I think we all agree that it’s so important to give your ESL/EFL student what he needs to fulfill his language goals: personalized ESL lessons delivered in the most interesting and engaging way possible. Just about every teacher I know feels this way. But you’ve probably already got a full...
