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But half my lesson’s just teacher-talk: Should we pre-teach vocab?
I’m always torn over the decision to pre-teach vocabulary. Whether it’s via the 7-step (Calderon & Minaya-Rowe, 2011) or 6-step…
Author: brendon_albertson
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The loneliness of the public school TESOL professional
In this post, I summarize several feelings of loneliness and isolation I’ve felt upon shifting my 13-year career in TESOL…
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Sentence Imitation for Incidental Learning of Academic Language
The need to teach grammar without making students bored Through teaching in mostly East-Asian EFL contexts, and more recently having…
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The Power of Recognizing Patterns
Nearly everything can be reduced to a pattern. In science, researchers aim to find models that fit phenomena in the…
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A Quick Collocations Activity using ChatGPT
I used to scour the internet to find example sentences that used the vocabulary I was teaching. Usually dictionary websites…
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Helping newcomer MLLs find their voice in English with a Translated Sentence Scramble task
Rather than allowing their minimal English ability to limit what they can communicate, this method takes away the limitations by…
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On the nonlinearity of lesson planning (Part 2)
I previously wrote that when lesson planning, often a great idea comes when we least expect it: right before going…
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On the Nonlinearity of Lesson Planning (1 of 2)
How much time does it take to plan a lesson? Well, assuming the lesson plan is not just doing what…
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Thoughts about vocabulary sort tasks for content-area words
A sorting task is a nice way to have learners work with vocabulary and help acquisition. Working with vocab leads…
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NLP & CALL: 2 fields that haven’t really merged yet?
NLP = Natural Language Processing CALL = Computer-assisted Language Learning NLP makes chunks to help businesses make money… In another…