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Hi there As a relatively new teacher I thought I'd ask for anyone's opinions on here - - I currently teacher each morning from 9am through 12:15pm (with a 15 min break in the middle). My problem is that, for whatever reason, I sometimes find it difficult to fill the 3 hours and still maintain that ...

That was a very good suggestion in correcting students, because I used to explain grammatical rules when they make a mistake. Thank you very much FangWB. Your reply is encouraging. Jori, I have to apologize for my last response to your posting because I was in a hurry to go to work and didn't even ...

I have some students who are from the South of China. When they read some words such as "lead" , it sounds like "need", and the same thing happened to /r/ sound. What can I do to solve this? Thank you very much. I am originally from southwest of China. It is true that people from south have difficu...

I am currently acting as a teacher's aide in a first grade class in an innercity school. My teacher recently informed me that I should be more firm with the students. She does not really have a discipline plan that is enforced, so she does a lot of yelling at the students. This seems to be pretty i...

I've been teaching English to university-level Koreans for five months in a language center. Our one by four classes engage in a lot of converstaion, but I wonder how conversation helps students to learn the language. Although they are talkative , I wonder if this activity improves their English ov...

i have been teaching adult English for one semester. i am vey discouraged by those students with low-motivation. some of them can only manage a small amout of time to study. The majority of them do not study after class at all. The reasons why they do not like to study english lie in two aspects. O...

hello, i am an ELT student in Kocaeli university in Turkey and i want to learn how we can teach our learners the correct pronuncation.is the only way of teaching it just by games?or is there any different exercises to use while teaching the correct pronuncation? The best way to teach pronunciation ...

Hello, I am new at the ESL thing. Less than 2 months in Korea. I teach at a technical high school. Thus far their one and only teacher. The kids are mostly from poor families with zero english background. I could use some good ideas about games. These are nice kids but this is the end of their educ...

I am a full-time English teacher but going to start a couple of hours a week doing some voluntary teaching. The children are special needs, physically/mentally (not sure what PC term is now) - so much so that they aren't allowed to attend normal school. Does anyone have any experience teaching in a...

this is my first ESL teaching job (I have taught K-8 Special Ed. for 7 years) and I'm kind of "lost" in terms of what/how to teach...my class is made up of 18 immigrant women (from Mexico and South America) in their early 30's.....most are beginning to low intermediate level...I have tried the basi...

I am Chinese and my husband is American. We have three children who are all fluent in both English and Chinese. Our youngest child is getting to be trilingual (Spanish). I speak Chinese and my husband speaks English with them all the time. I have to admit it's not easy to say everything in three lan...

Studies have shown that children learn the best through aqusition. Thus, the best way to teach a second language is to speak the language with children as much as possible and make sure what you teach and what they learn is real life related.