Feeding Student Engagement
Part one of this article highlighted the importance of combining interactive activities with learner-centered approaches to capture students’ interest and…
Category: Education
How We Learn
We can’t help learning. Our brain weighs only 1 ½ kilos, but it consumes ten times more energy than the…
What Good ELT Teachers Do: Strategies and Practices for Effective English Language Teaching
English Language Teaching (ELT) is a specialized field that requires a unique set of skills and qualities. Good ELT teachers…
Parental Involvement in ESL: The Challenges
I grew up in a middle-class family in a small city. Although my dad was not a PhD holder, he…
Feeding Student Engagement
Getting students engaged in classwork in the age of omnipotent and ubiquitous technology is challenging. Learning nowadays happens in diverse…
ELT and DigitalNatives in an Era of Continuing Social Challenges
Emerging at the beginning of our century, the fourth industrial revolution that is unfolding has democratized access to information but…
Engaging Minds and Senses: The Art of Multisensory Phonics Instruction
Phonics is a method of teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes the relationship between letters (graphemes) and their corresponding sounds…
“Examining Cultural Contexts in Textbooks/ Impact on Students with Learning Disabilities”
Education is a powerful catalyst for shaping the minds of the future generation, and textbooks stand at the forefront of…
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT : Fostering learners’ autonomy through collaboration.
First coined in early 1980s by Henri Holec, researcher in the field of language autonomy, the term actually refers to…
Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in the EFL Context: Strategies for EFL Teachers
Another academic year is heading towards its end and most of us have already started thinking about its course and…