I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

TEFL Geek recently posted about a new resource for teachers called English Agenda. It seems to have some useful resources, including research. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Keep-Up With Current ELL/ESL/EFL News & Research.

Dave Dodgson comes up with a creative way to use pictures in the classroom. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons.

Jeffrey Hill has begun a new blog called iPad English that is focusing on….using the iPad for English teaching and learning. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Beginning iPad Users.

The power of the poster is a very interesting, and useful, post about….using posters in class. It includes some excellent videos and comes from One Year In The Life Of An English Teacher.

I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

“What are errors and how should we deal with them in our classes?” is a collection of responses from ESL/EFL teachers around the world. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On ESL/EFL/ELL Error Correction.

Videotaping Helps ESL Students Recognize Their Good Mistakes – and Learn from Them! is from Eric Roth. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures.

Why and How to Encourage Students’ Critical Thinking Skills – an #Eltchat Summary is from a March, 2012 conversation. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Teaching & Learning Critical Thinking In The Classroom.

L is for Linguistic landscape is an intriguing post by Scott Thornbury.

One Stop English has created a smartphone app. There are tons of apps out there for helping people learn English, but I don’t know of any besides this one that is focused on English teachers. Are there others out there that, because of my limited universe, I’m missing?

I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

A is for Automaticity is from Scott Thornbury.

Extrinsic “VS” or “AND” Intrinsic Motivation? is thoughtful post by Karenne Joy Sylvester.

Enjoy TEFL Geek’s “The Star Wars Guide to ELT.”

How and why you learned a foreign language is another one of Brad Patterson’s great Blog Challenges.

There are some good ideas in this Lesson-A-Day interactive from David Deubelbeiss and EFL Classroom 2.0

Check out the March newsletter of EFL Classroom 2.0.

I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

Reuters Video: Aesop’s fable brought to life by clever crows is a video and transcript over at The English Blog about pretty cool experiment done in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand.

Scott Thornbury suggests that readily available Internet tools could be better for English Language Leaners than eCoursebooks — “In short, anything (e)textbooks can do, the internet can do better.”

Brad Patterson offers a Blog challenge: a quote that defines your teaching style. Check out the scores of suggestions.

Chris Speck offers a lesson on vampires, including hand-outs.

How Americans Have Reshaped Language is from The New York Times.

I regularly share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

TEFL Geek writes about an interesting idea in Using Haiku for Summary Tasks. In some ways, it’s similar to using “found poems” for the same reason.

TEFL Geek also shared that The Economist is looking for suggestions on what it can do to make its material more accessible for use in ESL/EFL classes. There are lots of good comments there — it would be nice if more mainstream news sources took a look at them, too.

Scott Thornbury talks about the importance of developing teacher/student rapport.

Ken Wilson writes about EFL/ESL teachers who have gone on to be novelists, and Jeremy Harmer makes a connection to how we do our own “pitches” to students.

efl-resource.com shares what can be learned from Darth Vader and Yoda about classroom management.

In case you haven’t seen it already, check out this month’s issue of the EFL Classroom 2.0 Newsletter.

I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

On Teaching Effective Learning is from Teacher 2 Teacher, and shares some good ideas for student reflection.

Smile is a nice lesson plan, including materials, and is from Film English.

How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence is an excellent post by Maria Constantinides.

Beating the Humdrum is from Language Moments, and has some excellent ideas on how to “liven-up” a less than interesting textbook. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Adapting Your Textbook So It Doesn’t Bore Students To Death.

This is the first post in a weekly or bi-weekly series I’ll be publishing regularly. It will share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention:

stuck in a lift is a hilarious video that was posted by ELTbites, along with suggestions on how to use it with students. There is one line said by a character that probably makes it unusable in a K-12 classroom, but it’s well worth watching.

Food for Thought… and for Better Classroom Management is by Dave Dodgson. He offers some excellent classroom management advice that’s applicable in any school situation.

Teacher: Talk in pairs. Student: Why? comes from Box of Chocolates. The thirty-four comments off excellent reasons to give students for why there is value in having them speak with each other — even if neither is fluent in English.

Teacher James provides some excellent Silent Movies, along with suggestions on how to use them in class for language development.