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ESOL Play Tells a Hurricane Story
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped a trillion gallons of water on Houston, Texas. Familes were separated,…
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A Strangely Playful Lesson for Requesting and Avoiding a Favor
What if it turns out we are taking language much too seriously? In Language Play, Language…
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Let’s agree to disagree: a lesson in pragmatics
Last spring, Maissa and Bushra were discussing fall courses, and Bushra casually mentioned that she was…
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Hidden Grammars: Complex Systems in the Language Classroom
What if there is not just one way to categorize and describe grammar? What if there…
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Play-ing with Language: Conversation Skills through Theatre
In recent conferences there has been a call for instruction in the “hidden” language of pragmatics,…
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Kinesthetic Grammar Activities: Getting Grammar on the Move!
UPDATE: Based on the popularity of this post, we got inspired, and are very excited to…
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Color-Coding for Grammar Awareness
Power points are great for lectures, but for classrooms with projectors, nothing beats a word doc…
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TESOL Chicago: Ideas and Inspiration
At a drama presentation given by Kathleen McGovern at the Chicago TESOL last week, participants created…
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Book review: Her Own Worst Enemy
Originally posted on ELT Planning: Alice Savage The latest offering from Alphabet Publishing looks like a…
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Using Trio with beginning multi-lingual writers
TESOL Chicago is coming, and that’s usually a time when people…
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