Resource Description: This virtual seminar concerns extensive reading and how it may be used to help learners not only learn to read but to help them increase their vocabulary knowledge, and improve their writing, speaking and listening abilities. Learners use the books they read as a basis for performing vocabulary, writing, speaking and listening activities. Extensive reading can be blended into any language course and program, regardless of the focus or methodology.

Resource Type: Virtual Seminars

Resource Description: Is it acceptable to use “impact” as a verb? “They” as a singular generic pronoun? How should ESL/EFL instructors or students decide? Curzan offers a lively historical perspective on well-known grammar/style rules and an insider’s look at completing the annual ballot for the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel.

Resource Type: Convention Plenary & Keynote Sessions

Resource Description: The key to fluency in a second language lies in knowing basic contextual and motivational features that must be present in order to facilitate language learning. This plenary reviews evidence-based research nestled in a cognitive approach promoting effective language learning and theories used to derive those approaches for classroom use.

Resource Type: Convention Plenary & Keynote Sessions

Resource Description: The idea of teachers as reflective practitioners has been part of English language teacher training and development for a long time. Central to the metaphor of reflection is the mirror. Who do we see when we look in the mirror, how did we get here, and where are we going?

Resource Type: Convention Plenary & Keynote Sessions

Resource Description: Aziz Abu Sarah shares how education played a major role in his transformation from a radical to a peacebuilder, and how his educational work in Syria, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, and the United States has helped bridge the gap between hostile communities. Abu Sarah explores how education has the power to heal conflicts, from the geopolitical stage to the classroom.

Resource Type: Convention Plenary & Keynote Sessions

Resource Description: This lesson plan coincides with a project I am working on about discourse analysis. For this assignment, we were asked to search through textbooks and analyze the text within a chosen chapter of these books. The textbooks could be ESL-related, or they could be any other type of textbook. If another type of textbook is used, it must be treated as if I am teaching it to a classroom of ESL students as well. The textbook I chose to analyze was World regional geography: People, places, and globalization (2012) by Royal Berglee, with specific focus on Chapter 10: East Asia. To perform my discourse analysis, I utilized James Paul Gee’s How to do discourse analysis: A tool kit (2011). I used two tools listed in this book’s ‘tool kit’, but the one this lesson plan is based on is the ‘Cohesion Tool’. While reading through this high school geography textbook, I came across some vocabulary words that would be difficult for some students to use, if this book were to be taught to an ESL class. So, with my musical background, I decided to teach the pronunciation of these words by using musical rhythmic notations.

Resource Type: Lesson Plans

Resource Description: Fluency in a language, and language teaching pedagogy doesn't necessarily mean one is interculturally competent.  Join this webinar to learn more about a research-based framework and definition of intercultural competence and how this framework can be used to develop and assess students' ability to interact successfully with others from many different backgrounds.

Resource Type: Virtual Seminars

Resource Description: This webinar provides a summary of the work and findings of TESOL International Association’s Interest Section Task Force.

Resource Type: Other

Resource Description: This resource is a guided reading assignment for the opening chapter of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It includes various types of responses and is designed to make this challenging read more accessible for Advanced English Learners. It can be used as a model for similar guided reading assignments. NOTE: this activity would be best preceded by students reading a biography of Carson's life, and some information about the environmental movement and DDT.

Resource Type: Activities

Resource Description: This resources includes assessment models which could be modified for any content area or language proficiency.

Resource Type: Teaching Tips

Resource Description: A fairly quick and easy presentation assignment for any level of ESL student.  Includes a rubric.  Useful for teaching proper presentation skills.

Resource Type: Assessments

Resource Description: This is a participation rubric intended for use during class time which allows teachers to properly assess the level of effective and meaningful participation for each student.

Resource Type: Assessments

Resource Description: This search and share webquest activity asks students to select, summarize, and lead a small group discussion on an engaging example of engineering in our daily lives. This reproducible one-page worksheet can be used either as a homework or an-inclass research assignment leading to a communicative activity that sheds light on how technology continues to evolve. It can generate authentic discussions on significant contemporary developments, shifts, and issues.

Resource Type: Activities

Resource Description: This interactive session will begin by providing a brief overview of research-based information about the various uses of wordless books.  We will then provide a snapshot into highly rated wordless books.  Lessons to go along with the books, including apps and websites to use related to the books will be shared.  In addition, how wordless books might be used for different age and/or language proficiency levels will be discussed.

Resource Type: Virtual Seminars

Resource Description: Experienced ESP practitioners from the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) groups of IATEFL and TESOL International Association discuss how to enhance ESP program development in English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts and settings. Organized by Kevin Knight and hosted by TESOL International Association.

Resource Type: Teaching Tips