ESL Teaching - Archived

wangbo.blogtown.co.nz — Article takes a look at the use and influence of technology in the classroom. Do students learn better with paper textbooks or electronic ones? Blackboards or powerpoints? Also looks at student motivation and teachers modelling multilingualism.

www.mandmx.com — How do you say Occupy Wall Street in Chinese? This is perhaps a question you have gotten your English classrooms lately in China? How do you explain it to them?

rob.easternity.com — "they see westerners on hand, happily ensconced behind a glass barrier, smiling and waving when people pass by. All the office needs is a tire swing and some fake rocks... The fun thing is that although we’re up there several hours at a time, we might or might not even have actual students, which means we get paid hourly to sit in the office and look western.

seeingredinchina.wordpress.com — A look at China's education system in rural Guangxi. The article also highlights a few of the major underlying problems in China's unequal system.

www.meganeaves.com — Great new book about being a foreign teacher in China.

www.teachabroadchina.com — A new edition of Enjoy English will be available for download each week on Sunday night (Beijing Time) in our ESL forum. We hope that you can use Enjoy English to help stimulate conversation in your classroom. TeachAbroadChina.com staff members have already tested Enjoy English and find that it can generally be used for 30-45 minutes depending on how well you are able to expand the contents.

tianjinshannon.blogspot.com — Our friend who teaches English in Tianjin shares this semester's crop of hilarious English names. "Drizzle" and "Banker" are just the beginning...

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china.notspecial.org — After a week spent teaching English to Tibetan kiddies and generally increasing the pungency of my body odor, I've managed to make it to a town large enough to offer Internet access and a hot shower.

www.techcrunch.com — Sclipo launches a new live video feature, “Sclipo Live”. Sclipo Live lets you teach for money one-on-one through live video conferencing.

www.onemanbandwidth.com — I often show students some of my works in progress to help them appreciate the use of metaphorical/global thinking and the higher need for cultural information. I show them that basic communication is a breeze and does not require sophisticated vocabulary or grammar skills.