tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47001706430634801842024-02-20T10:43:57.865-08:00ESL ABOUTESL teaching and learning resources for teachers and students. Ideas for effective English as a second language acquisition. Articles, interviews, and professional advice. Career opportunities for ESL teachers and students. ESL job interview questions and answers to these questions.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-73499010105269473362018-10-01T09:48:00.005-07:002018-10-01T09:48:48.368-07:00Are you an Excellent ESL Teacher?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent teacher teaches with love and respect. Such a teacher is sympathetic to students and cares about them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the basic features of an excellent teacher:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Patient and Sophisticated</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent teacher does not exhibit anger, rage, and exasperation. Tolerance and steadiness demonstrate an exceptional character in a teacher that is an example to all students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Inspires and Motivates</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent teacher inspires learners to develop their lifetime study and research skills; because the teacher himself is a lifelong learner. When the students graduate from the university, they continue studying and showing their interest in the ideas and concepts that were explained by the teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Arouses Creativity and Develops Critical Thinking Skills</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent teacher inspires with his ideas and stimulates creativity and critical thinking. His students learn by doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An Excellent Teacher is an Expert in his Profession</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He knows his subject very well, uses modern methodologies, spends a lot of time on his professional development. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An Excellent Teacher is Honest and Fair to his Students</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The great teacher paraphrases complicated topics in an accessible way. Also, the great teacher never tells lies and is never pompous, self-important or rude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An Excellent Teacher is Helpful and Considerate</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teacher is kind not only to his or her best friends but also to each student, colleague, and students’ parents. The teacher’s kindness and generosity help students feel supported, protected, and loved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An Excellent Teacher is Consistent</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teacher is organized and can formulate his objectives sharply. He enters the classroom well-prepared and is never late. Such a teacher conducts lessons in a planned, understandable and well-structured way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nice Personality</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The excellent teacher treats all people nicely not because they are nice but because the teacher himself is a nice person. Such a teacher affects the students with his or her unique behavior and acts as a role model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Assertive, Positive Attitude</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teacher’s positive attitude inspires students to study better, gives them moral support and spiritual strength. An excellent teacher can produce a remarkably productive and optimistic impact on the students’ performance.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-83495515415445966472012-07-27T22:56:00.002-07:002012-10-16T03:31:38.220-07:00Why to learn English?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emigration</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Travel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Studying abroad</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many more reasons. You tell them.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-34989041115458963112012-07-24T22:39:00.003-07:002012-10-16T03:32:00.207-07:00How to learn English faster?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The basic skills</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every learner of English should develop all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening skills are very closely related to speaking skills, and reading skills are very closely related to writing skills. So, the more you listen to the radio or TV, the faster your speaking skills improve. The more you read, the faster your writing skills improve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You should listen even if you do not understand. If you continue listening, your ear will get used to the sounds of the language and gradually, you will understand more and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regarding reading, you should read anything you like to read. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The secret of success is in listening and reading every day, at least for 10 minutes. It is better to read 10 minutes per day than once a week 6 hours.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-1595285070851465272012-07-14T07:56:00.001-07:002012-10-16T03:32:21.844-07:00Website for those ESL learners who want to improve their English language competence faster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a very good website that contains many interesting and useful things for ESL students. It is actually the website for those who are devoted ESL learners and want to study English effectively by themselves. Learners can easily improve their English language competence by performing interesting exercises and tests online. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many free online exercises that can help to improve English vocabulary competence, grammar, speaking skills, listening skills, reading skills, and writing skills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, there are many useful computer-assisted English language learning activities such as vocabulary games, quizzes, anograms, proverbs, etc. English teachers can recommend this website to their students either for independent learning at home or in a school computer lab. <b><a href="http://www.manythings.org/" target="_blank">Click HERE to visit this website...</a></b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-77138905356536943492012-07-03T22:00:00.003-07:002012-09-18T05:20:20.647-07:00How to learn English quickly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to the radio every day, at home or in your car. Listen to the world news. Listen, even if you do not understand; imagine that you are listening to the music of the language. Train your ear. After some time your ear will start catching more and more English words.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to English music every day. Try to find the words of the songs. Study the words with the help of a dictionary. Read them; then listen to the song and sing the song.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch English language films with English subtitles. Try to discuss the films in English with your friends, teachers or colleagues.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read English texts with the help of a dictionary; record your voice; listen to your recorded voice and try to improve your pronunciation; repeat this proces a few times. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chat online in English with people from different countries.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep your own notebook of words, idioms and proverbs.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Write your daily life in English.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get good English writing software and write as often as you can.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use a <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/" target="_blank"><b>good online dictionary</b></a>. Online dictionaries are updated regularly, new words and phrases are added every day. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buy a good quality electronic dictionary or upload a good dictionary into your mobile phone.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Choose to read English books according to your interests. Do not read books that you are not interested in.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember, you will never learn English if you do not want to learn it.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-28574776011355846352012-07-03T02:11:00.005-07:002012-09-18T05:20:47.992-07:00World English and World Englishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both terms are correct but are used in different meanings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">World English and World Englishes are not the same and many
learners confuse them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The term World English (also called International English,
or English for Business Communication) denotes international activities in the
field of business, arts, politics, economics, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">World Englishes denotes varieties of English used in different
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is an international journal <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-971X" target="_blank">World Englishes</a>. It is
devoted to the research of English in various linguistic and cultural contexts.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-39374481407794678202012-06-29T22:16:00.002-07:002012-10-15T07:30:53.811-07:00Which is correct, ESL, EFL or EAL?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">ESL</span></b> refers to those who live in the same country, e.g. French Canadians learn ESL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">EFL</span></b> refers to those who life in a different country, e.g. Chinese learn EFL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">EAL</span></b> means English as Additional Language. In this respect, the acronym ESL is not quite universal and is not suitable for all learners because some students learn English as a third or fourth language (or fifth, etc.), not as a second language. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the above acronyms should be applied to specific situations.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4700170643063480184.post-78438954163308142392012-06-29T10:14:00.002-07:002012-06-29T22:07:24.329-07:00English as a Second or Foreign Language?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ESL and EFL are two different things. ESL means English as a Second Language and EFL means English as a Foreign Language. So what is the difference between ESL and EFL?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some learners and teachers say that there is no difference between the two acronyms. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com