If you are a novice teacher, you are at the beginning of your teaching career. The videos in this category provide learning experiences on foundational English language teaching skills. With these foundational skills, you will have a very solid base from which to teach a wide variety of classes and learners.
In this video, we explain two concepts from Scott Thornbury, the E-Factor and the A-Factor, that can be used to evaluate the potential and effectiveness of your grammar activity choices. The E-Factor refers to efficiency and the A-Factor refers to appropriacy. Using these factors allows us to make good strategic decisions when planning our grammar lessons.
One of the exciting things about working in English language education is that there are many different career opportunities available to teachers with a little bit of teaching experience. In this video, you will see a series of interviews with teachers who have taken their careers in different directions such as teacher training, curriculum development, marketing, business development, language program management, language assessment and textbook authoring. This is an excellent resource for teachers who are considering pursuing other career paths within the English language education sector.
In this video, you’ll see interviews with a number of ESL students of varying English language abilities. The purpose of this series of interviews is to help you become familiar with what students can and cannot do as they move through the different levels of language proficiency.
In this video, we talk to teachers who teach different types of specialized ESL classes. They share with us what they find most rewarding and most challenging about teaching these types of classes, and impart some valuable advice to new teachers of specialized ESL classes.
This series of interviews explores the concept of Canadian culture from the perspective of foreign English language learners and their experiences in Canada.
In this video, we interview ESL teachers on how they teach Canadian culture along with the English language. The teachers discuss some common misconceptions ESL students often have about Canadian culture and share some advice for new English language teachers on how to prepare their students for success in a Canadian cultural context.
In this video, we will look at the phenomenon of English as a Global Language. In recent decades, the use of English has extended to every corner of the globe. English is so widespread that it is now commonly regarded as a global language. In this session, we will introduce some of the terms and concepts that go along with the idea of a global language. We will then take a look at the criteria for determining if a language is, in fact, a global language and analyze the most spoken languages in the world according to these criteria. We will examine some of the forces that push a language beyond its natural regional boundaries as well as some of the implications for any language that becomes a global language. Finally, we will examine the global spread of English and discuss the concept of World Englishes.
When you begin teaching, you must think about how you will grade and assess your students in a consistent way. You must determine the types of rubrics you will use and how you will develop these rubrics. In this course, we will discuss what a rubric is, the best scenarios in which to use a rubric, and why rubrics are used in ESL teaching and learning contexts. We will examine three types of rubrics including Primary Trait, Holistic and Analytic, and discuss some of their strengths and weaknesses. Lastly, we will introduce a framework for creating Analytic rubrics that includes scoring, subskill and descriptor considerations as well as general tips for making your rubric as effective and efficient as possible.
The use of classroom management English is a crucial way to increase the exposure our students have to English. This is particularly important in English as a Foreign Language contexts, in which student exposure to English is limited to the English they see and hear in the classroom. This course, designed for English language teachers whose first language is NOT English, will take you through key phrases that you need in order to manage your English language classes in English.
Explanation is the grammar presentation technique typically used in the ESL classroom when new language structures are introduced. While there is a time and a place for explanations, there are many other techniques with which teachers can present grammar more effectively and memorably. In this course, we will look at demonstrations of grammar presentation techniques that go beyond the explanations provided in textbooks. We will then compare and contrast the different techniques, based on criteria such as preparation time, challenge for the student, and appropriateness for particular grammar structures.
