brendon_albertson – Brendon Albertson

“You actually teach us stuff” “How come we learn from you?” At the risk of sounding like a braggart, these…

I’m always torn over the decision to pre-teach vocabulary due to the time required. There’s an argument that if you…

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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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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Nearly everything can be reduced to a pattern. In science, researchers aim to find models that fit phenomena in the…

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I used to scour the internet to find example sentences that used the vocabulary I was teaching. Usually dictionary websites…

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Rather than allowing their minimal English ability to limit what they can communicate, this method takes away the limitations by…

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I previously wrote that when lesson planning, often a great idea comes when we least expect it: right before going…

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How much time does it take to plan a lesson? Well, assuming the lesson plan is not just doing what…

I interviewed Mr. Tom Griffith on Zoom on March 11th.He was a teacher at Showa Boston and worked in Niger…