TweetThere are several in-class or homework activities that can improve a student’s ability to use a newspaper more effectively. Generally, these can be streamlined with summary-writing activities and are facilitated by students having actual copies of newspapers. Here are some examples of possible activities: 1) The instructor can choose two different types of articles (one [...]
TweetAttached to this post is a packet of materials I helped create for students at the community college I worked at before I moved to Russia. It is designed primarily as a series of reading lessons with additional activities for summarizing and it utilizes the rhetorical structure of American newspaper articles as its basis for [...]
TweetDownload materials here. For one hour during a technical training session for a group of 26 Peace Corps trainees, the ELF discussed practical approaches to designing an English language course at a secondary school in Turkmenistan. Because of his own experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the region (Uzbekistan) and his understanding of the [...]
TweetDownload materials here. Every Monday for six weeks, English Language Fellow John Mark King hosted a 90-minute workshop for English teachers on teaching effective reading strategies to non-native speakers of English. The workshop first introduced participants to the nature of reading and the importance of helping their students to develop their own effective reading strategies [...]
TweetDownload workshop materials here. Every Monday and Friday for six weeks, English Language Fellow John Mark King hosted a two hour workshop for English teachers on teaching process writing and the American-style academic essay. To meet the schedule demands of busy teachers, the same workshop was held both days each week. The workshop focused on [...]
