Corrective feedback in an ESL lesson — teacher coaching a student through a writing task

Corrective Feedback in ESL: 9 Techniques That Work

Corrective feedback in ESL is the single classroom move that decides whether students walk out fluent or fossilized. After twenty years teaching English in Taipei cram schools, I can tell you the worst lesson I ever gave wasn’t the one where I corrected too much — it was the one where I corrected nothing, sent…

Task-based language teaching in an ESL classroom with a teacher and students

Task-Based Language Teaching: 7 Examples That Work (2026)

Task-based language teaching is an ESL methodology where students learn by completing a meaningful task — booking a hotel, planning a route, solving a puzzle, writing a short report — and the grammar work happens after the task, not before it. The order matters. Meaning comes first; form follows once the teacher has watched what…