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Managing student participation is a big deal in the ESL classroom, and maximizing it is no easy task. Many of our ESL students are even reluctant to participate. They are perfectly content w 
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Fostering Financial Literacy in ESL Classrooms Using New Media Tools In these lessons students learn about managing money, banking, credit, debt, home fina
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The Web is the new language tutor you should pay attention to. In most cases, it does not charge a dime. You only need to charge yourself up so you can supplement your language learning routines with the many online aids that are at your disposal.
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Rewordify.com helps you understand more of what you read, faster. It translates hard English into easier English.
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helpful for adult literacy, esl classes - simplify words
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Fredrich Nietzsche
Katiebelle Wheelock's curator insight,
April 30, 2013 6:50 PM
Music can be incorporated into the classroom on a daily basis in so many simple ways. Music can be used to create a calm setting, motivational setting, as a classroom management technique, teach new lessons or vocabulary, and countless other ways. 
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May 9, 2013 3:29 PM
I agree! Music is a great tool to introduce new concepts and vocabulary. One of the teachers I work with uses songs to introduce vocabulary and it helps the lesson run very smoothly and helps with memorization even when days pass after the lesson has been taught!
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This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context.
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animated phonetics
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Proper pronunciation is vital to your ESL students' success. Pronunciation plays a very important role in communication - for your students to communicate effectively, they must
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If you teach adult ESL learners, be ready to plan and devote some of your class time to targeted pronunciation practice.
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Automatically create Lesson Plans using todays news. Uses Authentic English text graded by level, identifies grammar patterns and vocabulary usage.
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award-winning innovative technology service for both English language teachers and English language learners. It helps motivate learners, facilitates real world language learning and dramatically reduces class preparation time for teachers.
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For the next few weeks we’ll be focusing on listening activities for English language learners. So if that is your interest, make sure you sign up to get the blog posts via your e-mail. (Fill in...
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listening skills and the telephone game
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Business English lesson plans that follow an ongoing storyline in an office setting. This full Business course follows Lee from the beginning of his job search until the day he signs his resignation letter.
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February 14, 2013 7:10 PM
ESL Library offers great materials on a variety of topics that interest students. I love how they provide well leveled materials for all skills.
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A collection of high quality resources for teaching and learning English for speakers of other languages.
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A collection of high quality resources for teaching and learning English for speakers of other languages.
Sarah Kosloski's curator insight,
September 23, 2013 11:35 PM
Free ESL worksheets, all skills covered.
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This is the power point presentation I used in one of my trainings for the ALC/Moldova staff in July 2009. For more information, contact me at danielamunca@gmai Via Inna Piankovska, Juergen Wagner
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integrating student portfolios in ESL instruction - a Slidecast presentation
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July 8, 2015 5:18 PM
there's always something to learn from students' portfolios. Always try to adapt it within the classes. |
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A selection of Internet tools that can be highly useful to teachers of English as a second (or foreign) language. The ever-growing Web has caused the
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IATEFL 2013 presentation http://collablogatorium.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/contentcuration.html
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Learn English online with these fun games. A wide selection of vocab and interesting, engaging content. Study English and have fun at the same time. This site is for students to use individually.
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Find all the tools, downloads, helpers for your teaching.
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A free online Talking English Pronunciation Dictionary - simply mouse over your entry to hear it pronounced. American and British spellings, with alternative pronunciations.
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talking pronunciation dictionary
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I will be travelling quite a bit this year to conferences and schools, speaking about a teaching lifelong passion - the use of video as an educational material…
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ideas for using video in the EFL Classroom
Ellen Graber's curator insight,
March 6, 2013 9:27 AM
Wow, only 50..how many more applications for video can you think of? What have you done? 
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March 6, 2013 10:03 PM
Now to give an example of how these ideas can align with the new technology curriculum (ACARA). Let's take Point 9... Foundation to year 2 technology curriculum: 2.1 Recognise and play with patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams. Learning Activity: Get students to watch a "how to" video or a clip of a technological process (e.g. milking cows) then ask student to draw pictures to sequence the steps. Another example, Point 22... Foundation to year 2 technology curriculum: 2.2 Describe how people use different information systems safely to meet personal and family communication and recreation needs. Learning Activity: Have students conduct a skype interview of a person of an older generation to gain insight into what information systems they used for communication and recreation when they were the age of the students. Compare this to the students experience.
References:
ACARA. (2013). Draft Technology Curriculum F-2. Retrieved March 7, 2013, from http://usqstudydesk.usq.edu.au/m2/mod/folder/view.php?id=105116
Ddeubel. (2013). 50 ways to use video in the classroom. Retrieved March 7, 2013, from http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/50-ways-to-use-video-in-the-classroom?xg_source=msg_mes_network#
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(Phonetics / Phonology)
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TEFL glossary
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materials for teaching esl students - audio, video, handouts, different levels
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series of worksheets based on topics designed to get even the quietest students talking
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Public domain versions of language courses from the Foreign Service Institute.
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language courses
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