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August 25, 2017

ESP: What you don’t know can help you

Before teaching my first adult ESL class about five years ago, I queried the program director, “Should I ask my students what they want to learn?” “All they’ll say is […]
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July 11, 2017

From Project to Project-Based

I never anticipated falling into the alphabet soup of academia until I found myself enrolling in a T-E-S-O-L training course. A healthy dose of curiosity and a quick Google search […]
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May 31, 2017

Not good enough

Because language is an integral part of a person’s identity, language learning is often emotional.  As such, critical language feedback is neither easy to deliver or to take. Depending on […]
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April 12, 2017

3 Tips for Teaching English to Working Adults

When you hear the term “working adult,” who is the first person that comes to your mind? What job do they have? What age? What ethnicity? To take things one […]
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March 30, 2017

How to get freelance work from ELT publishers

Over the past five years, publishers have come to rely on freelancers like never before. When publishers find someone they like, they send the freelancers more work than they can […]
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December 18, 2016

The World is Your Classroom

I graduated from The New School MATESOL program in 2013, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go into education management, become more of a teacher trainer or even […]
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November 30, 2016

Reflections on SLRF: Very Pleased with the Plenaries!

I had the opportunity to attend the Second Language Research Forum at Columbia University Teacher’s College this fall. It was the first research-focused conference I had ever attended and I […]
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August 3, 2016

Moving on to a PhD

So you’ve finished up (or are finishing up) the M.A. in TESOL, and now you’re thinking about doing a PhD? I think you should go for it. Doing a PhD […]
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July 27, 2016

Bridging the Gap: University Practice for Academic Success

While in the New School MA TESOL program, I developed a firm belief that using student needs to drive classroom and programmatic curricular decisions is of utmost importance. This part […]
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May 25, 2016

Adopting an English Name

If you have worked with Chinese students in the past twenty years, you have probably noticed that their names tend not to fit our phonotactic expectations of a typically Chinese […]
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