Mobile
Technology
The rapid development in the mobile industry has allowed many learners to own a smartphone. With smartphone apps, learners can now learn on the [...]
Articles
I considered myself lucky (though some would say I am crazy) to be given the chance to teach English language to several groups of [...]
Articles
Ideas
Writing
Writing academic essays can be rather difficult as it requires some necessary “skills” in ensuring a piece of work remains “academic”. I would like [...]
Ideas
Writing
Process writing approach can be a good way to help beginners in producing an essay. It gives students a systematic structure in organising their [...]
Grammar
Ideas
Using pop song’s lyrics to teach tenses can be a good way to start a grammar lesson especially for beginners. Instead of going straight [...]
Ideas
YouTube
There are indeed vast amount of YouTube videos which can be used in the English language classrooms but teachers might not have the time [...]
Writing
The approach to genre, influenced by the systemic-functional linguistics (Halliday, 1978), emerged out of literacy research in primary schools in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. [...]
Technology
Recent advancement in technological innovations has indeed transformed our ESL classrooms. Various multimedia teaching tools and other gadgets are introduced into the classroom with [...]