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Hello there! I am an ESL teacher in a small school district in TN. I have been teaching ELLs for six years now. I love it! I have been asked during this time to also provide a district wide inservice training to the regular classroom teachers on the ESL program, and ELL students in their classes. We are small, so some of my classes are still pull-out. I know the benefits of second language acquisition teaching strategies for ALL learners, and I have been able to provide acceptable information, however I am really wanting some creative and innovative ways to present ELL material in such a way that these teachers will really drive home the valuable issues of teaching ELLs. Is there anyone out there who may have some "neat" ideas on how to do this??

Take the mystery out of teaching English conversation skills by simply focusing on the most commonly used conversation patterns. I developed this approach to teaching conversation skills in Korea about 30 years ago. E mail me for the patterns if you're interested.