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Rozanna, I teach university students in Taiwan and I face frequent problems with doing group work. Here are a few common problems: - it's hard to monitor their work (pick up emergent language, spot errors, hear if they are speaking English or Chinese) with a large class (sometimes it just sounds lik...

I thought this was a pretty good video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCifi4mgaAc

More links on this topic. In 2007 and 2009, Mario Rinvolucri wrote some short articles containing some activities similar to those in Humanising Your Coursebook. As he explains in the articles, these activities are intended for use with Green Line, an ESL coursebook, but they can also be adapted for...

This is a topic I'm really interested in, so I thought I'd add a few comments. I'd highly recommend you get a copy of Mario Rinvolucri's Humanising Your Coursebook. You can see a preview here: Humanising Your Coursebook - Book Preview Marisa Constantinides also has some clever ideas for working with...

Recently, the Hotch Potch English website published a review of Provoking Thought which you can see here: http://reviews.hotchpotchenglish.com/2010/03/book-review-provoking-thought.html In addition, It's Magazine featured an article on new books which included a section on Provoking Thought: http://...

I can recommend three sites: TEFL.NET, One Stop English, and Teaching English. You can see some sample articles below... Liz Regan's 20 Teaching Tips http://www.tefl.net/teacher-training/teaching-tips.htm Teaching English with Minimal Resources http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=l...

This is a brief announcement about my second book, titled Provoking Thought. Provoking Thought is a collection of ready-to-use, student-centered activities designed for the ESL/EFL classroom. This book emphasizes using students' thought processes as a resource for language learning. Each chapter cov...

I created a page with a number of articles about drilling a few months ago:


http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticlessite/drills

Also, some links to lots of free games and activities here:

http://www.geocities.com/allhou/lessgames.htm

I think Eric Roth's book Compelling Conversations might be the perfect book for this class. Each chapter covers a different topic, and there are a lot of questions for discussion, along with some interesting quotations and proverbs. You also might want to look at some resource books for teachers, su...

I have put together a page of links to articles on the subject of teaching large classes. The first few are for teaching ESL/EFL classes, the others address teaching large classes in general. Take a look:

http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticle ... rgeclasses

I just found a clever introduction to doing roleplays on the webpages for the Straightforward series of coursebooks. There's an article on doing roleplays, as well as three sample activities:

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/straigh ... leplay.htm

Some excellent comments by Chris Cotter. I just ran across this blog entry by Scott Thornbury over at the Delta Publishing website: http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/learners-who-are-shy-to-speak The article is about shy students not introverted students (shyness and introversion are not ...

In April 2009, Delta Publishing released Teaching Unplugged by Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings, which is an overview of Dogme. You can read more about it here:

http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/html/b ... l#TEACHUNP

If you are interested, the two articles below regard mnemonics in second language learning ===== The Use of Verbal and Imagery Mnemonics in Second-Language Vocabulary Learning by Andrew D. Cohen http://www.tc.umn.edu/~adcohen/Cohen%20articles/1987%20-%20Use%20of%20Verbal%20&%20Imagery%20Mnem%20in%20...