The December 2011 TESOL Quarterly contains a wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and materials writers, with lots of great information in it and a valuable companion to his 2003 corpus study on the […]
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Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · EFL, Materials development, curriculum development, speaking, teacher-training
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5 great books for teaching speaking in the English language classroom
July 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · EFL, Resources, TESOL, curriculum development, language testing, speaking
A recent thread on the TESOL English as a Foreign Language Interest Section e-list discussion group raised the issue of teaching conversation in the EFL classroom. I came up with the following list of useful books for those interested in teaching speaking.
Folse, K. S. (2006) The art of teaching speaking: Research and pedagogy for ESL/EFL […]
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Using Questions in Language Teaching
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · EFL, Materials development, speaking
My Oxford University Press co-author Jenny Bixby and I have recently contributed posts to the Oxford ELT Global Blog. We each talked a bit about using questions in the language classroom–this is a key element of our book in the forthcoming OUP series called Q: Skills for Success. Read the posts here and leave a […]
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Speaking skills for English language learners
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, EFL, Handouts, Resources, TESOL, language testing, pronunication, speaking
On April 17th I’ll be giving a talk at the Literacy New York Volunteer Conference in Saratoga Springs. The participants are mostly volunteers who work one-on-one with individuals and families from an amazing array of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This talk is on speaking skills for English language learners. Even though the program is theoretically […]
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