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Animate your language lessons
Brave new world | 4 hours ago
This is a nifty little application I can imagine would make language learning fun. Joe Dale (October 11) put me onto the Animate application for language learning on Jose Picardo’s blog In the About section of his blog, Box of Tricks, Jose Pic read more
Foreign Language-Learning Child Prodigies
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 8th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Three Exceptional Children Near the beginning of the eighteenth century, within the three years from 1719 to 1721, were born in different countries, three children of exceptional language-learning talent entirely without parallel to date in history. read more
The Top Five Most Spoken Languages in the World
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 7th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Most Spoken LanguagesAccording to the Lexiophiles website, there are currently over 6,912 languages in the world, spoken by more than 6.6 billion people. Here is a list of the five most spoken languages, with their ranking, and the actual number of p read more
The Headless Horseman Rides Again
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 6th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
English Language Learning in October Every year during the month of October and at times into early November, I show my English as a Foreign Language learners the Disney animated version of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The video serves several read more
The News in Many Languages
Free Technology For Teachers | October 6th 2008 by Richard
The BBC is one of my favorite news services because it offers coverage of a very wide variety of topics and interests. Last Thursday the BBC announced that they are planning to offer six new news channels on YouTube. By the end of the year the BBC wi read more
How to Make Yourself and Your English Language Learners Smarter
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 4th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Make Yourself SmarterIt is now commonly accepted that collectively, our brain works by utilizing billions of neural inter-connections along an almost infinite variety of pathways to manage our intellectual capacities. The more inter-connections we ha read more
Company secrets
Kalinago English | October 3rd 2008 by Karenne Sylvester
Following on from my post about Facebook vs Twitter, the privacy or lack thereof when one chooses to place one's photo albums, private thoughts and messages to friends in a public space, I somehow got around to thinking about secrets in general.In to read more
Can You Really Learn A Foreign Language While You Sleep: Theoreti…
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 3rd 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
The Lure of Learning English While You SleepWhile the lure of “learning English or another foreign language while you sleep” may be highly provocative and tempting for all of us in this not-enough-time-to-do-everything world, there’s still no read more
Can You Really Learn A Foreign Language While You Sleep?
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 2nd 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Learn A Foreign Language While You Sleep It really seems so easy. Just put on the CD or tapes, relax in bed and learn English (or another foreign language) while you sleep. Have you ever seen those ads that say, “Learn English While Sleeping” or read more
Try This for Perfecting Past Tense Pronunciation Practice
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | October 1st 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Regular Verbs in English Past Tense When I needed some fresh material for working in the past tense with my EFL, English as a Foreign Language, students in Barcelona, Spain I opted to create a short story. This three-paragraph narrative I wrote using read more
Teach English and Learn Spanish: An Interesting and Profitable Co…
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | September 29th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Teach English and Learn SpanishWhen a reader recently wrote in to ask, “I am interested in teaching English (as a foreign language) in a Spanish-speaking country (mainly because I desire to reach some fluency in the language)." I was, needless to s read more
Compelling Conversations Moves Up Amazon Ratings
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | September 27th 2008 by Eric18
Amazon lists over 5 million books on its website – and continues to overlook many fine self-published books. Naturally, as a self-publisher, Amazon represents an important outlet for my ESL conversation textbook, Compelling Conversations: Questions read more
Teaching English in Colombia Frequently Asked Questions
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | September 27th 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Colombia The following comprise some of the most frequently asked questions I receive on teaching English in Colombia. While not a complete listing, the responses do provide some brief insight into EFL possib read more
Daniel Roberts MMA Highlight Reel
MMA Driven | September 18th 2008
Daniel Roberts is a rising star in the MMA world with the potential to take the fight game to the next level. This is a highlight reel of some of his early fights. He can strike with the best of them but when he takes his opponent to the ground read more
Using L1 in the EFL/ESLClassroom
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ | September 18th 2008 by Craig
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SEETA and Penny Ur
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ | September 14th 2008 by Craig
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } , originally uploaded by Aaron23. Today I took part in a very interesting read more
Our First Week of Daily Activities
Daily English Activities | September 13th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Well here we are at the end of the first week of Daily English Activities.This week I've added a total of nine activities: Learn a Song in EnglishTry a TOEFL Reading Test Listen and Write the News Improve Your Vocabulary and Make FriendsExercis read more
Autonomous Learning for EFL ESL Students
Quick Shout | September 12th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Well this news posting is actually about one of my own sites called Daily English Activities and this is a new site that I have launched to help EFL and ESL students develop their English language skills through online tasks.I've tried to mix the tas read more
Teach English in Iraq
Turd on a Stick | September 11th 2008
Are you a not so experienced EFL teacher who would like to teach English in Iraq? Then Robert Gordon has a deal for you! A prominent Iraqi family living in the Kurdish region of Iraq is seeking to hire an English language tutor for its children, ages read more
Try a TOEFL Reading Test
Daily English Activities | September 11th 2008 by Nik Peachey
TOEFL is a very popular American exam to test the level of your English. Today I've chosen a reading task that is similar to the ones in the TOEFL exam. The test comes from the Exam English website.The text for the test is about a famous photographer read more
AI and Chat Bots for EFL ESL
Quick Shout | September 9th 2008 by Nik Peachey
I've always been fascinated by AI since I saw the Stanley Kubric / Steven Spielberg film by that name some years ago. There used to be a fantastic chat bot on the website for the movie (which is now gone) that I developed a lesson around for a group read more
Improve Your Vocabulary and Make Friends
Daily English Activities | September 9th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Improving your vocabulary is more than just learning the meaning of new words. You need to be able to hear them, spell them and use them too. That's why Babbel is such a useful site.Babbel can help you to learn new words with its interactive activit read more
Naming My Sources: Part 2
Learning technology teacher development blog | September 9th 2008 by Nik Peachey
In the first part of this series aimed at sharing the sources of the information I blog about, I focused on sites which spread the word about new technology or websites. In this second part I'd like to spread the word about some of the more ELT and E read more
Exercise Your Ears With Authentic Film Clips
Daily English Activities | September 6th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Watching and understanding films in English can be very difficult, but Yolango is a website that makes it much easier. The site has a huge collection of clips from films and has subtitles or the script to help you understand them.When you register yo read more
Educational Games That Really Are Fun
Quick Shout | September 5th 2008 by Nik Peachey
It's often been a criticism of many attempts to make MMORPG computer games educational, that when that happens the fun goes. I have to say that it is often the case, but I think Power Up is an exception.Power up is an educational computer game based read more
Photo Assignments for EFL ESL Students in Second Life
Learning technology teacher development blog | September 5th 2008 by Nik Peachey
One of the things that I really like about Second Life is the rich visual imagery and the creativity that many of the builders there have put into designing their Islands. We can exploit this along with the Second Life snapshot tool to create stimula read more
Record Yourself Reading a Poem
Daily English Activities | September 4th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Reading poetry can help your to develop your reading skills as well as your speaking and pronunciation skills. This can be especially useful if you record yourself and listen.You can do this in a fun way using a simple free software program called Fl read more
How the Bejing China Olympics Impact My EFL Learners
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher | September 3rd 2008 by Larry M. Lynch
Olympic Medals in Colombia By the way, did you watch any of the Past month’s Bejing, China Olympic events? I did and so did the vast majority of my English as a Foreign Language learners. They paid special attention, as did most Colombians, to the read more
Using a Word Cloud to Remember Words and Texts
Daily English Activities | September 3rd 2008 by Nik Peachey
Reading is a great way to improve your vocabulary and develop your knowledge of the world, but if you want to remember what you have learned and keep your vocabulary active then here's an enjoyable activity you can do quite easily.The activity uses a read more
Using Word Clouds in EFL ESL
Learning technology teacher development blog | September 3rd 2008 by Nik Peachey
I've just discovered Wordle, which is a really useful site for creating word clouds. The word clouds are created by entering either a text, URL or del.icio.us username into a field. The site then generates a word cloud based on the frequency of key w read more
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