Startegies For Teaching English As A Second Language


  • Teaching English As A Foreign Language
    My friend Sarah lives about three hours north of New York City, and is teaching English as a foreign language to four young women who work in a Chinese restaurant in the nearby town. They meet once a week, with the girls coming in to Sarah’s living room with the delicious odors of shrimp and fried rice trailing them. Sarah finds that audio books are very helpful in this process, for hearing the same words and phrases repeated over and over plan Read More...
  • Why Learn English As A Second Language?
    Why Learn English as a Second Language? Why not? It’s the international language of choice for so many organisations and businesses world-wide. Frankly, whilst the USA remains the dominant economic and political power globally, then English is likely to retain its importance and popularity. So if you’re in the International marketplace, be it as a Sales person, an Engineer, scientist or politician, then maybe having a good level of confidence Read More...
  • Teaching English in Mexico: Two Great English Language Teaching Opportunities in Cancun
    CANCUN JOBS: Here are two MORE job possibilities … In the last article we talked about language schools and institutes. This article features Bi-lingual schools, Pre-Schools, Primary, Secondary and university-prep schools which heavily accent English in their programs and are earnestly seeking native-speaking English teachers for English and other classes. There are a considerable number of them due to the influence of tourism as the principal Read More...
  • Globalization And The English Language
    Did you realize that over a billion people in the world now speak English? According to a report titled, "English Next" by language researcher David Graddol, "...two billion people [will] be speaking or learning English within a decade." [1] English is everywhere. The Economist says, "[English] is the language of globalization-of international business, politics... It is the language of computers and the Internet... it is the dominant internat Read More...
  • What is a Language Teacher?
    At a recent English Language Teaching or ELT conference, when I asked, “What is a language teacher?” a cornucopia of responses ensued. Many were quite verbose, others shorter and simpler, many rambled. For both EFL teachers and ESL or foreign language students, the definition of a language teacher is useful in determining what qualities to seek or strive for when studying English or a foreign language. It was TEFL linguistics researcher Costas G Read More...