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A language teacher can create a variety of puzzles to engage and enhance language learning for their students. Some types of puzzles that a language teacher can create include: These types of puzzle books can provide interactive and engaging activities for language learners, promoting vocabulary acquisition, grammar understanding, and overall language proficiency.
In a couple of days, I will be speaking at a TESOL conference at Towson University. The topic – Building Supportive Spaces for Multilingual Learners. How did I get here? How did I get to speak to professors and educators at a university? I have no formal teaching certificate and yet, I have made a…
Strategies for teaching language In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of teaching language via coloring books. This post will provide strategies for teaching and assessing comprehension of news articles or videos when teaching adults. Choose an authentic resource A strategy for teaching language by using news sources, whether a newspaper or video news bulletin…
Workbooks are the best way to teach and facilitate a response from your student. A workbook teaches and provides a response so you can gauge how much your student has grasped. Take Advantage of Visuals Use Visuals when creating your lessons. This helps in learning a new language. But when creating a children’s coloring book…
Everyone loves a story! Teaching language through stories makes it interesting all around. For the educator as well as the learner. Creating a story book has become easier now with so many companies looking for content to publish. If you are an educator, writing lessons and activities comes naturally. Combine the two and you have…
How does creating a low-content book teach a language? Low-content books like graphic novels, coloring books, and notebooks are wonderful resources to teach language. Language Low Content Book Advantages There are advantages to creating low-content books to teach language. Look for the course I have created on how to publish your low-content language book. Subscribe…
Benefits of Bilingual Blogs When teaching strategies for cultural competence it is important to use real-life materials. And, blogs are a real-life resource. Bloggers use real-life language. I call it unguarded language. It is not grammatically correct. It is not organized like a book. But, it is someone bleeding on a page. Multi-lingual bloggers bring…
So you want to teach a language, but don’t want to use the millions of apps or textbooks. Or maybe you have used up all the apps and textbooks and now want to provide a real-world experience to your students. Language learning is always the most effective for students when acquired by immersion. When faced with a sink…
