The Ninth Edition Of The EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival has now been posted!

David Deubelbeiss, founder of EFL Classroom 2.0, has done his usual excellent job of presenting a wide-range of posts on English Language learning.

In addition, he’s set-up a Voice Thread there for people to leave audio comments about the Carnival and its posts.

The next EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be posted on April 1st, with submissions due the day before. Nik Peachey will be hosting it at his Quick Shout blog.

You can contribute posts from your blog using this easy submission form.

Let me know if you’d like to host a future edition of the Carnival. You can see all prior editions here.

Mary Ann Zehr at Learning the Language has just posted the 8th Edition of the ELL/ESL/EFL Blog Carnival, and it looks great! There are really some quite exceptional submissions this time around.

David Deubelbeiss at EFL Classroom 2.0 will be hosting the next one with contributions due on January 30th and the Carnival published on February 1st.

If you’d like to submit a blog post for the next ELL/ESL/EFL Carnival you can use this easy submission form. Consider contributing anything that you think might be helpful to the teaching, or learning, of English (examples of student work are welcome!).

Let me know if you’d like to host a future edition at your blog…

You can see previous editions of the Carnival here.

It’s time for the seventh edition of the ELL/ESL/EFL Blog Carnival. You can see the previous editions here.

The next edition will be published on December 1st, and will be hosted by Mary Ann Zehr at Learning The Language, the blog hosted by Education Week that focuses on English Language Learners. That blog is on The Best Ways To Keep-Up With Current ELL/ESL/EFL News & Research list.

The deadline for the next edition will be Friday, November 28th.  You can use this easy submission form to contribute posts you think are helpful to the practice of teaching English Language Learners.  Examples of student work are welcome.

Please let me know if you’d like to host future editions!

I’m still a little overwhelmed with the beginning of the new school year, and wasn’t really feeling particularly creative in how I listed contributions to this edition.  There were some excellent ones submitted,  and here they are:

Speaking of the Carnival’s next host, Mary Ann Zehr sent-in a post on The School System As Sorting Mechanism discussing immigrants students and families in New York City.

My extraordinary, and irreverent, Sacramento colleague, Alice Mercer, wrote Look Ma! I Can Decode Hangul…And Other Stupid Party Tricks.

Mathew Needleman shares an activity using music to help teach English in Teaching Parts of Speech.

EFL Geek, whom I have previously dubbed “The Dean of ESL/EFL Bloggers,” sent in a very helpful Ultimate Online Slideshow Guide which is a must-read for those who use web tools to create slideshows.

Nik Peachey writes how ELL teachers can Create Their Own Social Network In Seven Steps.

The One Language blog submitted a piece on Adjective Structure and another one on Homophones.

Meg contributed a piece on a classroom game called “Who Do You Love?”.

Challenge Language School invites other EFL/ESL classes to participate in a collaborative project.

Michael Reid considers the issue of “teaching to the test” in Greece in his post A Dog Less Wagged.

David Deubelbeiss From EFL Classroom 2.0 shares Tips For Learning Languages.

Drew writes on 10 Tips On How To Speak Effectively In Public.

“Glowing Face Man” shares his Golden Rule of Language Learning.

Thanks to all the contributors.  I’ll be looking forward to seeing the next edition!

David Deubelbeiss at EFL Classroom 2.0 has just published the Sixth Edition of the ELL/ESL/EFL Blog Carnival, and it looks great! In fact, it’s the biggest edition yet!

He also has a poll where readers can vote for which post they think is the best one (even though they all look good to me — it’ll be tough to pick one).

The deadline for the next edition is September 30th. You can use this easy submission form to send in your posts.

It’s time for the fourth edition of the ELL/ESL/EFL Carnival, bringing together posts from throughout the blogosphere about English language learning and teaching. The deadline for the next Carnival will be in about two months — on May 31st. You can contribute submissions using this easy form.

TECHNOLOGY

Ronaldo Lima from Brazil gives an excellent comparison of online presentation tools and then shares how his students used them in an international ESL/EFL Sister Classes project where he and seven other teachers from around the world (including me) are collaborating.

David Deubelbeiss, the brains and primary energy behind EFL Classroom 2.0, writes about “bots” (those animated thingamajigs that try talking to you on the computer) and language learning.

Alice Mercer, who I can’t say enough good things about, writes about she uses computers to help develop her students’ verbal skills.

Carla Arena has a not-to-be-missed post on blogging in the classroom. It’s one of the best, if not the best, piece I’ve seen written on the subject. She follows that one up with a post about incorporating technology in the classroom.

Mathew Needleman, who hosts his own excellent Digital Storytelling Carnival, writes about using iPods as a teaching and learning tool. Mathew, by the way, was just named a Top Online Educator.

Cora Chen from San Francisco has some beautiful videos and follow-up exercises for ESL students on her blog. She’s also contributed some excellent examples of student work.

Eric Koshinsky shares about a free online PowerPoint-like program he likes. He’s also submitted an excellent post reviewing a variety of pronunciation software.

IN THE CLASSROOM

EFL Geek from Korea, who might be the “dean” of ESL/EFL bloggers, shares some ideas on how to use a TV comedy show as a language-development exercise.

Heidi Hyte discusses reading strategies in ESL/EFL instruction. She differentiates between ones that are bottom-up and those that are top-down.

Sabrina De Vita from Argentina contributes a lesson plan on racial discrimination.

I hope you enjoyed the posts as much as I did!

It’s time for the third ELL, ESL, EFL Carnival!

As usual, there have been some excellent contributions.  But before I share them, please put the deadline for the next Carnival on your calendar — March 31st.  You can use this submission form to contribute blog posts that you believe offer helpful advice or insight into teaching English (including student work). 

Here are the posts for this edition:

Technology In The Classroom:

Eric Koshinsky writes Give CALL A Try.  In this post, he shares lots of ideas about what a teacher can do with just one computer in his/her classroom.

Alice Mercer, my Sacramento colleague, shares Podcasting For ELD.  She writes about how she has her students prepare a podcast that’s sent, by telephone, to all the parents.

“Bennie” talks about Technology and Blogging As A Learning Method.

CLASSROOM PRACTICE:

Nina Liakos gives good advice to her students about Reading For Pleasure.

Mathew Needleman contributes How To Scaffold Open Court Vocabulary For English Language Learners.  Mathew also hosted an excellent carnival this week that’s worth checking-out, the Carnival of Education.

Evelyn Ono Vineberg writes about the Irregular Verb Chat Board she created for her students.  I, too, am a fan of board games to help students learn.  In fact, last week I made one for my grand-daughter to help with her reading skills.

I look forward to seeing what the next edition holds.  And, by the way, you can see previous editions here.

The time for the second ELL/ESL/EFL Carnival has arrived!  A number of talented teachers (who are also bloggers) from all over the world have submitted posts that they felt (and I agreed) are particularly helpful and insightful about teaching and learning English as a Second Language.

The next ELL/ESL/EFL Carnival deadline will be January 31, 2008.  You can send a post to me using this submission form or emailing it directly to MrFerlazzo@aol.com.  I still think it would be great if other blogs would like to host future Carnivals — just let me know.

Technology In The Classroom:

Claudia Ceraso writes about how she’s having her students use the Internet more effectively through using “social bookmarking.”  Del.icio.us is her tool of choice, and she’s got a nice video explaining how to use it.

Susan Tsairi posts about using the great web application VoiceThread with her elementary school students — all seventy of them!   She’s also inviting other classes using VoiceThread to connect with her classes. 

Sabrina de Vita sent two excellent submissions.  One was a way for students to play the online game Guess-The-Google, but with a pro-active twist.  And then, as in Susan’s class, she shares what her students created in Guess-The-Google by using VoiceThread.

David Deubel, the founder of EFL Classroom 2.0, lets us know how students can learn English by playing “Fling The Teacher.” 

Seth Dickens shares step-by-step instructions on how to create some engaging online video lessons with his students.   It’s pretty creative, and I had certainly never heard of the idea before.

Social Action:

Christina Niven, who also has just about the best website around providing original resources to teach English Language Learners civics, posts about how students can be involved in getting Congress to make labor leader Cesar Chavez’s birthday a National Holiday.  Since my first involvement in community organizing was working on the United Farmworkers boycotts thirty years ago, I think Christina’s post is a great idea.

Classroom Lessons and Strategies:

Katie at the great TEFL Logue tells us about some “do’s and don’t's” in helping English Language Learners understand verb tenses.

Jose Luis Cabello at the English Teaching Lab writes a thoughtful post about grammar.  In it, he includes the results of various research studies about the most effective ways for students to learn grammar.  He also includes a list of his favorite web links.

EFL Teaching Jobs:

Steve in Thailand Musings give advice on how to get an EFL teaching job in Thailand.  It probably has some good suggestions you can use to find a teaching job in any country…

Don’t forget the January 31st deadline for the next Carnival!