Teaching ESL students with ADHD works best when you chunk instructions into single steps, build movement into every 10-15 minutes of class, and replace long silent-reading stretches with multisensory tasks — TPR, picture cards, short audio clips. Pair that with a visible routine on the board and a non-disruptive fidget option at the desk, and…
Seven timed IELTS speaking drills that target the four criteria examiners actually score — fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
Dyslexic ESL students need multisensory teaching, structured lessons, extra processing time, and the right assistive tech — plus a teacher who can tell dyslexia apart from an ordinary language-acquisition lag.
A practical ESL teacher career guide comparing pay rates, required certifications, and growth opportunities across the world’s top teaching markets — plus the online and beyond-classroom paths most teachers overlook.
The ESA method — Engage, Study, Activate — is a three-stage lesson-planning framework Jeremy Harmer introduced in his 1998 book How to Teach English. Unlike the fixed order of PPP, ESA lets teachers reorder or repeat its three stages using one of three sequences (straight arrows, boomerang, or patchwork) to match what’s actually happening in…
English is full of figurative language for the simple act of talking. We warn people not to beat around the bush, praise someone who hits the nail on the head, and wince when a friend accidentally spills the beans about a surprise party. Communication idioms describe not just what we say, but how carefully —…
Dogme language teaching is an ESL approach that drops the textbook and builds the lesson from conversation instead — the teacher reacts to what students actually say, writes it up correctly on the board, and lets grammar and vocabulary emerge from that exchange rather than from a pre-set syllabus. Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings developed…
Project-based learning can turn into a craft activity with no new language if you’re not careful. Here are 7 techniques that keep ESL students producing English throughout the whole project, not just the final presentation.
The grammar-translation method explained for ESL teachers — its history, why it still earns a place in exam prep and academic English classes, 7 modern techniques, and why it fails as a standalone method.
The Natural Approach teaches English through comprehensible input and a low-anxiety classroom, not grammar drills. Seven classroom-ready techniques from Krashen and Terrell’s method.
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