Culture,Culture,Culture! What are you and how can I teach you?

What role should culture play in choosing a selection around which to build activities? Culture can be defined as the shared patterns of the thoughts, behaviors, languages, and beliefs learned by a particular group and transmitted from one generation to the next. Among these, language is the most representative element in any culture because language [...]

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Let me introduce a Korean legend.

I like vampire stories very much. The love for this started from a TV show called “Buffy the vampire slayer”. From that time, I have enjoyed many vampire related TV shows from ’Angel’, ‘Moonlight’, ‘Blood ties’, and ‘True blood’ to now ‘The vampire diaries’. You will be surprised when you realize how similar story plots vampire [...]

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 What do you think is the best approach for teaching English Language Learners in the content areas?

Can you picture yourself in a situation where you cannot understand the language being spoken around you? Due to the limited language proficiency, you might not make friends and participate in the classroom activities and it may make you fearful and frustrated. Many English Language Learners are likely to feel this kind of frustration. When [...]

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Language experience approach to teaching reading

Most beginning learners who are limited in English proficiency are struggling to read texts through word recognition strategies, language knowledge, memorization, and so on. For those students, effective instruction and practice covering all areas of reading are needed. In fact, the Language Experience Approach is frequently recommended for beginning readers. It can help the students [...]

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