Teachers are constantly looking for tools to streamline their teaching and enhance the learning experience. Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising avenue for ESL/EFL educators, offering an automated yet customizable approach to crafting worksheets. This guide will walk you through how to efficiently harness the capabilities of LLMs, ensuring you create meaningful and tailored […]
Unlocking the Power of Language Models for ESL/EFL Writing Prompts
Ever feel like you’re on a never-ending quest for engaging and effective writing prompts for your ESL/EFL classroom? Good news! Large language models are your new knights in shining armor. Read on to discover how to craft perfect prompts and elevate your teaching game. Just a note, most of this text and the images are […]
Using AI to Generate Personalized Reading Comprehension Texts and Questions
ESL and EFL teachers are always on the lookout for innovative ways to make lessons more engaging and tailored to each student’s needs. Now you can generate unlimited personalized reading comprehension texts and questions using an LLM (Large Language Model). But, as with all tools, there’s an art to using them effectively. Whether you’re familiar […]
Various forms of TESOL
The Audio-lingual Method This method arose as a result for the need of foreign language proficiently in both listening and speaking skills directly following the Second World War. This approach is closely linked with the psychological movement of behaviorism and thus, has as its main focal points, drilling, repetition and habit-formation. Lessons under the ALM […]
What are Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism and Sociolinguistics?
Psycholinguistics (sometimes referred to as the psychology of language) refers to the study of the neurobiological and psychological factors that enable human beings to comprehend, acquire and produce language. Stemming from this field of linguistics, areas such as biology, neurobiology and cognitive science are used to examine how the brain processes language. Moreover, psycholinguistics focuses […]
Tips and activities for teaching writing
Writing is perhaps the most difficult and tedious areas of the communicative approach to teach for several reasons. I have sat home thinking about what tools or materials I could use to facilitate learning for a writing class. Some materials I have used were effective, while others were far too complex; but then again, what […]
Pronunciation and Sounds
Pronunciation refers to the perception and production of the significant sounds of a target language (or any language, in fact) in order to achieve meaning within the context of language use (Seidlhofer 56). To put is more simply, pronunciation is defined as the particular sounds we use in order to derive meaning (AMEP 1). Pronunciation […]