Do your students look forward to skimming an article for its main ideas? No? Shocking. There’s often a couple of hiccups we face with many reading and writing practice activities: they’re not always authentic; there’s minimal interaction between students; they’re not actually practicing reading or writing skills at all. Read More »Learner interaction in reading & writing activities
Many times over the years I have tried to find out about conferences and other TESL-related events available throughout the world in case I could… Read More »Magical list of TESL/TEFL events
I’m not sure why I’ve always wanted to travel to the east coast, but when I learnt that the 2011 TESL Canada Conference would be… Read More »A trip to Halifax for TESL Canada Conference 2011, Pt. 2
I recently attended the TESL Canada Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With a good majority of the 400+ attendees representing the college/university sector, I decided… Read More »TESL Canada session – Customising web tools for EAP classrooms
I presented at the semi-annual Virtual Round Table Conference for the first time on Soundcloud and thanks to a smooth experience with the technology (after… Read More »My Soundcloud redux at VRT11
Utilising Twitter with students, for lesson planning and for PD, Part 2 The previous post, Tweet This, demonstrated three classroom activities (of many from the… Read More »Tweet that!
Utilising Twitter with students, for lesson planning and for PD, Part 1 In one of our workshops, I discuss the use (and validity) of social… Read More »Tweet this!
Hello to all the attendees of the TESL Ontario workshop on Utilising Social Networking and Other Internet Sites in Language Teaching! Thank you for choosing… Read More »TESL Ontario Workshop