TweetAttached to this post is a copy of the article I co-wrote with English Language Fellow Anna Grigoryan for English Teaching Forum magazine. It was published in 2008. Forum website Link to issue containing article Link to download article in PDF
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Register, Face and Email: A Writing Lesson for the Electronic Generation” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced One of the most important skills our students learn is how to use language differently in different situations and with different people. Speeches are not like telephone conversations. Essays are not like newspaper [...]
TweetWhat is a WebQuest? A WebQuest is any student activity that requires research on the Internet as a means of exploring a topic or answering a series of questions. It is a way to encourage students to explore real-world use of English written for native speakers. They often take the form of a list of [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 90 minutes Title: “Community and Process: Building Engaging Writing Lessons” Target Students: Beginner to advanced, any age group We are all writing teachers, but we sometimes forget. A writing lesson can be dynamic, energetic and creative. In fact, it should be. As teachers, we want our students to work together and share [...]
TweetFormat: Plenary Time: 45 minutes Title: “Written Corrective Feedback: How to Respond to Student Writing” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced When students who are learners of English produce writing in an academic setting, some amount of written feedback is required from their professor. Indeed, research has shown that the type of written feedback teachers give [...]
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 [...]
