For Teachers
Beatboxing codas: a technique for helping pronunciation of Chinese & Vietnamese learners
Check out my Prezi below! Presented at CCSU’s Annual Spring Conference for Language Teachers, 2017
Category: For Teachers
For Teachers Materials Research
Finding the right “chunks” to teach for fluency
“Chunks” are groups of words that commonly occur together, and according to research, are likely processed and recorded in the…
For Students For Teachers Materials
YouGlish + n-grams = Targeted bottom-up listening practice
YouGlish is a great site that allows you to search for YouTube videos by their transcripts rather than only by…
For Teachers
“Explain it to a 5-year-old” – Practicing Tier 3 Vocabulary
Tier 3 words are essentially field-specific terminology. As an example, I’m teaching an ESL breakout course to help students understand…
For Teachers Research
The Untapped Potential of Natural Language Processing in CALL
How tokenizers, part-of-speech taggers, and algorithms can parse sentences for use in language learning apps Natural Language Processing (NLP) is…
For Teachers
Training students to use corpora – for distinguishing between synonyms
A student who was studying lists of IELTS vocabulary approached me and asked for help distinguishing between the large number…
For Teachers
Making group tasks for online classes with Jamboard
The problem: Something that’s bothered me about teaching on Zoom has been the inability to “pass out” materials to students…
For Teachers
Improving Vocabulary Retention – Talk about a word!
I’ve been studying Japanese since 2010, and have experimented with Anki flashcards as a way to increase my active spoken…
For Teachers Research
Redefining what “authentic listening tasks” are
In one of my favorite books, “Listening Myths,” (2011) author Steven Brown says that listening is social and interactive. This…
For Teachers
Correcting Errors in Student Writing
What research tells us about written corrective feedback (WCF) Is written corrective feedback even helpful? In short, yes; it’s been…