How ESL and EFL classrooms differ In her first guest post for OUP, Kate Bell, a writer and researcher, talks us through some of the practical differences between ESL and EFL classrooms. You may think that teaching English is teaching English, whether you’re doing it in a Thai village or a suburban California school. And you’d be right, sort of. Many of the same textbooks, lesson plans, and online resources serve in both cases. Many English teachers go from one type of teaching position to the other, and back again. An ESL classroom is in a country where English is the dominant language. An EFL classroom is in a country where English is not the dominant language. Based on these definitions, we can see that there are important differences in the student population. ESL students need Hands-on English lessons suitable for their immediate needs. EFL students need Lots of practice using English, especially orally. These are the key differences I see between these student communities and strategies to teach English accordingly.
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edutopia A while ago, I wrote a post called Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary which spells out (get it?) the process and rationale for selecting certain vocabulary words and also describes six steps for teaching new words. Here, I'm going to add to that earlier musing on this topic by offering up some must dos that took me a few years down the teaching road to figure out. Must Do #1: Be Very Selective As for vocabulary lists, less is better. When you choose, choose high frequency words. And once those big-bang-for-your-buck words are chosen, you will want to really own those as a whole class -- including you, the teacher. Must Do #2 Use the Words Every Day Pull those words out of isolation in that novel or textbook and use them every day and every way you can. And challenge students to take those words out of the room. Must Do #3: Prominently Display the Words Create a word wall that uses images, examples, analogies, and connections to their own worlds. Must Do #4 Revisit Past Words
Snappy Words Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa Upper Elementary Snapshots: Rethinking the Rough Draft: A Simple Strategy that Leads to Better Revising Of all the stages of the writing process, doesn't it feel like revising often gets the short end of the stick? One of the obstacles that always seems to be in the way is the simple logistics of where to do it. Students write their rough drafts in their composition notebooks, filling the lines, front and back, eventually "finishing," and we move them into the revising stage. Okay, make it better, we say. The piece as a whole looks basically the same as it did prior to revising. But where in their rough draft do we expect students to make those bold changes, those big changes, those important changes? Sure we can pick and poke and find ways around. Enter, the one-column rough draft. When we fold our notebook page in half length-wise, it creates two columns: one for drafting, and one saved for revising. And the obstacle is obliterated. It's a simple, easy adjustment, but let's look at the difference it allows when it comes to revision: Those are issues.
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