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The Listening and Speaking Center at De Anza College - We Help You Lower Your...
De Anza College Listening & Speaking Center By Kanako Valencia Suda If you are an ESL/EFL educator, you must remember the Affective Filter Hypothesis … right? It is one of the five hypotheses about...
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Restarting Your Career with Upwardly Global – Monica’s Story
Immigrant professionals By Mary Voelbel Monica came to the US in 2006 from Columbia with a Masters degree in Child Abuse Prevention and years of experience in public health. Originally an ESL student,...
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Is Technology Changing Your Brain?
photo by by dotheygandalf/Flickr By Stephanie Levin Digital technology may well be the darling of the 21st Century, but is it good for your brain? When I ask college students if the onslaught of...
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What is Noncredit?
City College of San Francisco ESL class Two part series by Gregory Keech Part 2 The Pedagogy and Funding of Noncredit The pedagogy of noncredit is quite different from credit. Because students'...
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Our Learners' Voices
SV ALLIES Initiative ESL students by Usha Narayanan The video footage below was taken at Campbell Adult and Community Education (CUHSD) in Campbell, California and highlights the experience of adult...
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Fun Ways to Use Voicethread with ESL Students
By Denise Maduli-Williams CCSF ESL class- Introduction to Reading Voicethread Voicethread’s tagline is “Conversations in the cloud” and that pretty much sums it up. I love using Voicethread...
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Top 10 Tech To-Dos Over The Summer
photos.com by Denise Maduli-Williams “You’re so lucky you have the summer off,” is the first comment anyone who finds out I’m a teacher says. Well, I may not be in the classroom teaching, but in many...
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Flipping Bloom: What Flipped Learning Can Mean For ESL Students
By Susan Gaer I have thought about writing this for quite some time. What is flipped learning? In 1948 Benjamin Bloom developed Bloom’s Taxonomy. This taxonomy determined learning. There were six...
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Turn Your iPad into a Smartboard
photo by psutlt/flickr By Brent Warner Many of us in the ESL world are regularly watching well-to-do schools getting the latest and greatest in smartboard technology while we are left with the computer...
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“Everybody, Please Take Out Your Cell Phones”
By Brent Warner While most instructors lament the change of tides where every student has a cell phone seeming more interested in a four inch screen than the lesson at hand, I often wonder how quickly...
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