What is Grammar? Defining Grammar for Teachers
What is grammar? This article tries to investigate how grammar has been defined during the history of language teaching. We will start with the traditional view of what grammar is all about. Then, we...
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What is the difference between prescriptive, descriptive and pedagogic grammar?
What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar? In this post, we will try to look at the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. We will also try to highlight some examples that...
Thirty Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection
A personal reflection on language teaching by Jack C Richards This is an interesting article about the history of foreign and second language teaching by Jack C Richards. It is a personal reflection on the...
ESL and EFL Website
ManyThings is a website for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are: quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator...
Free ESL Listening Activities
This is a link to a cool website which provides free ESLactivities: Teachers can build their own listening quizzes. There is also a shared list for such quizzes. You can also embed the code...
Repetitions and recycling in EFL and ESL teaching
Textbook are designed to enclose different units based on different topics. Because of the constraints of time or fear of being boring we follow the order of the units of the textbook. We rarely...
Glossary for ESL/EFL Teaching
Glossary of terms relevant to the English teaching profession. This glossary includes terms related to English, ESL, EFL ,TESOL, TEFL, and pedagogy. Accuracy The ability to produce grammatically correct sentences. Fluency is an other...
English Language Teaching
A brief history of ELT The adventure of English language teaching is quite outstanding. From the early grammar translation method to the new trends focusing on communication, English language teaching has drawn from theories...
