TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 60-90 minutes Title: “Judging a Book by Its Cover: An Unorthodox Reading Lesson” Target Students: Beginner to advanced, any age group When teaching reading, teachers need to keep in mind that our goal is to help students develop the skills of an effective reader. But, what are these skills? Primarily, effective readers [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop/Plenary Time: 45 minutes Title: “On NOT Teaching Culture: Giving Students Tools for a Future without Borders” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced, any age group When teaching “culture,” many EFL teachers focus on the simple academic learning of various traditions, rules of behavior and values of one or more groups of people. In this [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Fun with Prosody: Creative Explorations of Intonation in English” Target Students: Low-intermediate to advanced, any age group Much of our communication involves the successful interpretation of intonation. Often, a listener who is a non-native speaker may understand every word of an utterance, but still misunderstands it because of a [...]
