English Endeavors

The End Game: Getting low level writers across the finish line

College writing is meant to be a meaningful experience, at least for the writer, and if…

Meeting the demands of writing with language learning is an uphill climb, so one nice thing…

How is language learning like a roller coaster? Diane Larsen-Freeman (2008) notes that language learning is…

All good writers—no matter what they are writing about—share a secret, and that is the power…

The following video is an astronomical metaphor for the way we see vocabulary, grammar and writing spiral throughout the…

Language tends to spiral like nature. As planets spiral around the sun, so the sun spirals around…

On Thursday, October 1, we will be presenting an OUP webinar titled Spiraling Into Control: Meeting the needs…

Power point presentations were never meant for English language teaching, but they lend themselves to lesson plans in…

Students love games. A little competition can often bring out the best in them. A Grammar…

We are Colin Ward and Alice Savage, a couple of English language teachers who met at…