These posts directly involve ideas, discussion, lessons, etc. within an English for Academic Purposes teaching and learning context.
On May 5, I finally had the opportunity to lead a full session about Academic Reading Circles face to face to teachers, at the TESL Toronto Spring 2012 Conference (#toscon12) and it was exciting to start the ball rolling.Read More »#toscon12 session
This weekend brings everyone 5th Virtual Round Table Web Conference. You should check it out. There, I’ve discussed #EAPchat during its opening Symposium. On Sunday, I’ll be talking about using blogs for intensive and extensive reading practice and yep, Ghandi and the Occupy Wall Street movement are part of it.Read More »Blogs for intensive and extensive reading
On the first day, language learners go in, sit in a theatre-style tiered classroom altogether, unclear about what it will be like to study a content university course. It’s their first time to do so. They fear that they will understand little. And they’re right. They expect that writing downthe slide points will be enough. And they’re wrong. Learning how to engage with the lecture content means survival. How to do this is what we, as instructors, need to help learners figure out.Read More »The disconnect between students and content lectures
The second #EAPchat took place on Twitter on Monday, March 5 revolving around the question: Is the Academic Word List (or other lists) relevant for EAP programs? Mura Nava (@muranava) kindly summarised the chat here, with minor additions made by myself.Read More »The relevance of the AWL
Yes, I was supposed to present my three-minutes this morning at the #TeachMeet International, but because of technical difficulties in logging in, I decided to go back to bed instead of fooling around with it any longer. I promised to record my presentation on The Highlighter Role of Academic Reading Circles (ARC) in lieu. Here we are (though I doubt I squished it into 3 minutes).Read More »The highlighter role
For my 100th post, it seems fitting then that it be about a new project, a new era in my social media and teaching experience: this is a summary of the very first #EAPchat held on Twitter.
It’s the Christmas…/cough/…holiday season and with it come the wish lists full of toys, games, clothes and gadgets. Although many of the gifts under this tree contain those things, none of them contain the more abstract wishes I have for English language teachers everywhere. Read More »A language teacher’s Xmas wishlist
EDIT: This is the first ever appearance of Academic Reading Circles online. Some information, including roles, have been since update in the book. Click here to see. If you use any information from this post, related ARC posts linked below, slideshares, or the book itself, please attribute it to Tyson Seburn, with a link to the related post, presentation, or book. Thank you!
I will conclude the academic reading circle series of posts by looking at the in-class dynamics, my interaction with student groups and midway checks. As my semester is entering its last week before exams, we concluded our ARC with the second week on the History course topic: feminism. Last week, we focused on Soviet propaganda. This week, it’s SlutWalks and the future of feminism.Read More »The interactions of ARC