Few of us would argue that correction is one of the most important things we can provide as language teachers. Taking someone’s own, often carefully crafted response or utterance and helping them to perfect it is something that students often only receive in the classroom. This makes it valuable, desired and ultimately expected by your students.
There’s much more to teaching than vocabulary and grammar. But secretly, we all like to think we know it all, don’t we? Most English speakers use these words incorrectly on a daily basis.
English teachers we challenge you – how many do you know? Post your scores below!
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Patrice Palmer!
Thanks to the hundreds of you that entered the giveaway.
“Patrice Palmer, M.Ed., M.A., TESL has 20 years’ experience as an ESL Teacher, TESL Trainer, and Curriculum Writer in Canada including 7 years in Hong Kong. Patrice has taught students from 8 to 80 years in a variety of programs such as ESP, EAP, Business English, and language programs for new immigrants in Canada. Patrice now works as a teacherpreneur (www.teacherpreneur.ca) doing the things that she loves such as writing courses, sharing teaching materials, instructional coaching and travelling at any time of the year to conduct short-term training around the world. Please visit (www.patricepalmer.ca) for free ESL teaching resources.”
Congratulations Patrice! We hope you enjoy the subscription.
Everyone else, stay tuned for future competitions and teaching-related giveaways!
Have a great week!
Anthony
I wrote an article a while ago about the difficulties that language teachers often face in the classroom with regards to ‘preconceptions of teaching’, which related to the expectations we have when entering a new classroom and how that shapes our engagement in a course.
We’re thrilled to announce the winner of our first giveaway – Lilit Bekaryan! Lilit now joins thousands of enthusiastic, creative teachers who use www.onestopenglish.com every day.
Lilit is a PhD, DELTA and CELTA qualified teacher who teachers at university level in Armenia.
We received entries from all types of English teachers all over the world so thank you for entering! Keep your eyes open for our next giveaway in January!
For many of us familiar with CELTA or other TEFL courses, the acronym MFP will have come to be regarded as one of the most important of the many acronyms we come across for teaching a second language. Used for both lexis and grammar, these three simple and easy-to-remember little letters were branded into our teaching methodology from day one as essential steps to follow when introducing any new piece of vocabulary or grammar with your students.
How much do you know about L1 interference? Try our fun quiz and learn a little about interference in different languages!
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