Joe McVeigh

As a musician, I’m always interested in ways of incorporating music and the arts into instruction. I think that “Using Songs in the ESL Classroom” was one of the earliest professional presentations that I ever gave.  Here, however, is a new twist: an English language school in Bankok, that makes extensive use of music and […]

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In mid-December I was flying back to Burlington, Vermont from LaGuardia airport in New York. A couple with a small child, dressed in a slightly unusual fashion were in the wrong seats, and were properly relocated to the very back row of the 20-seat plane where I was sitting. The father had something […]

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I’ve only just learned of a new job posting by Middlebury College for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing—a renewable three-year position. The posting is listed on the TESOL online career center here. Note that though this may appear to a TESOL professional  like an ESL writing position, it is actually for someone to teach […]

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