How Can I Improve My English?

If you're like me you've probably been asked this question by your students. Now the obvious answer would be to study. There's no magic pill they can take, nor can they learn English through osmosis, or by sleeping on their English book, although I'm sure they'd like to.

Learning a language and achieving fluency is hard work. Of course students don't want to hear that. They want you to come up with fun, exciting, and innovative ways to learn English. Here's a list I put together for my students. I keep a couple copies with me and hand them out to students who ask me how they can improve their English. They probably already do a couple things on the list, but tell them to try a couple new ones too. Now there are more ways than ever to learn a foreign language. Some people swear by online options such as Assimil, Fluenz, How to Learn Any Language, Memrise, Michel Thomas, Pimsleur, and Rosetta Stone.

20 Ways to Improve Your English

1. Do extra practice activities or homework outside of class.
2. Only speak English during class.
3. Try to think in English.
4. Read English books, magazines, journals, and websites.
5. Listen to English music, radio, and podcasts.
6. Watch English movies with English subtitles.
7. Watch CNN or BBC in English.
8. Meet with a native English speaker and speak English.
9. Meet with a non-native English speaker and speak Englihs.
10. Get a keypal and email them in English.
11. Chat online in English.
12. Keep a diary in English.
13. Use new English words outside of class.
14. Give long answers in class.
15. Read aloud.
16. Join Toastmasters and give presentations in English.
17. Practice, Practice, Practice.
18. Read graded readers.
19. Learn 10 new English words a day.
20. Review the lesson before class.

There's also a lot of information online. Here are a couple sites I found.

• 101 Ways to Learn English
• 70 Ways to Improve Your English

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6 Tips for Teaching Intermediate Students

There seem to be a lot of tips out there for beginners and advanced students, but few for intermediate students. It's a shame, because intermediate students hit a plateau and can get easily discouraged. Below you will find some tips for helping your intermediate students and keeping them motivated.

1. Teach your students how they can improve their English. Students tend to get stuck in a rut and not try new ideas. Show them what else they can do. 
2. Have students keep track of their goals. They should look at them regularly and cross of the goals they've achieved and think about what they can do to reach the other goals. 
3. Try recording students regularly. A simple tape recorder will do, though videos are better. Students can watch  themselves and see how much progress they've made.
4. Portfolios are great as well. Students should save their work and look back to see what they've achieved.
5. Try new activities. ESL About has tips for teachers and students. You can also find a lot of links in the lesson planning article.
6. Have more advanced students come in and talk about their language learning experience. They can give tips on overcoming the intermediate plateau as well.

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7 Reasons to Use Extensive Reading in Your ESL Classes

In many EFL and ESL classes reading is often a short activity that rarely lasts the entire class period or longer. Things are starting to change and there's a push for extensive reading. Studies have shown that it has been tied to students' academic success. Graded readers are often used to help promote extensive reading. Below you can find 7 reasons why you should use ER (extensive reading) in your classroom.

1. It exposes students to the classics using grammar and vocabulary they can understand. Shakespeare and Dickens is hard enough for native speakers. Graded readers are abridged versions that allow the students to read classics without compromising understanding.
2. Reading increases vocabulary and the more reading students do, the more vocabulary they'll learn.
3. It provides good examples of writing, such as paragraphs, transitions, and more.
4. It motivates and encourages students. They're able to see an increase in their English language learning because they have read an entire book in English.
5. ER increases English comprehension. The more imput they have, the more output they'll produce.
6. It encourages students to read. Technology is taking over our lives and reading is getting pushed to the back burner. Using ER in class shows students that there's still a place for reading in our lives.
7. ER is fun! Reading is often seen as a hobby and it's a nice break from normal class activities.

Recommended Links

• BBC's Teaching English info
• ESL Reading
• ExtensiveReading.net
• The Extensive Reading Foundation
• ITESLJ article by Timothy Bell
• Toshuo

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Vary Your Feedback With ESL Classes

"If it ain't broke, then don't fix it" holds true, but too often than not the type of feedback we give our students simply doesn't work. You know this because they keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again.

I ran across A Muse Muses by Neil McMahon in which he presents 14 different ways of feedback you can use with your students. So without further ado, you can read ways of varying feedback.

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Teaching Adult Students Who Can't Read Latin Script

Many students learning English have to first learn how to read Latin script before they can even begin. For children, this is easier than adults. Students who come from countries, such as China, Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia all have different alphabets. On Dave's ESL Cafe, posters had a couple of suggestions for teachers teaching these types of students. You might also try learning their language so you know what they're going through.

Fluffyhamster says that you should try to use pictures in Powerpoint presentations or use realia when possible.  Although nowadays teachers don't like drilling, in cases where students are unable to read, drilling does work. That doesn't mean that your whole class has to be composed of drilling, games work as well. TPR may work depending on your students. Many students usually are able to read, listen, write, and speak English in that order when they're student ESL or EFL. However, students who can't read often listen and speak first. Since you're dealing with students who can't read, you should try teaching them phonics as well as penmanship. Again, although not looked upon positively nowadays, having a teacher centred classroom might work better than pair or group work. It depends on your students though. Lastly, remember to smile. Smiling works wonders.


Fluffyhamster goes on to say that you're going to have issues finding English-English materials for adult students who can't read, so you might have to create your own. Mnemonic are useful as well. English speakers learning Japanese often use mnemonics, so you should be able to use them for students learning English as well. Here are some examples at this post. 

Fluffyhamster suggests Joanne Kenworthy's Teaching English Pronunciation (Longman 1995) chapter 5 has a good guide about English sounds and spellings that might be able to help your students out.  COBUILD English Guides 8: Spelling has lots frequent words containing particular phonemes in initial, medial or final position. The Oxford Learner's Pocket Dictionary also has good information in the "Help with spelling and pronunciation" section. If you're looking to do a bit of research, try reading Diane McGuinness' Why Children Can't Read or Early Reading Instruction. The ERIC website might also have other resources. (Make sure you check the box for Full-Text Availability - Show only results with free full text directly from ERIC' that is immediately below the Search for fields on the Advanced Search page.)

Fluffyhamster says that you might want to also try these resources (most of them are free): Phonics Activites for Reading Success, Adult Literacy, Tips for Teaching Phonics, Literacy by Pearson Longman, HCT's Reading and Phonics, Teaching English Spelling, and Ideas for learning spelling.

Rp suggests reading the book Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, by Gambrell, Morrow and Pressley. 

Eric18 says that personalised tutoring, often with picture dictionaries and workbooks, can be effective. He also says that the American Library Association on adult literacy has lots of good info.


Neilpollick adapted a set of books designed for English speaking toddlers. He added some pages about grammar and then had some of the teachers record the books to MP3s. By doing this, the students could practice outside of class, similar to books on tap. He also said that Headway is good since it uses lots of pictures. 

ESL About has some good links as well. 

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Make Use of Native English Speakers

From hkonul.wordpress.com

I can't tell you how many times I've been to schools that have native English speakers working there, as teachers, and there are grammar, vocab, spelling, or punctuation mistakes. I'm not talking about minor mistakes, but major ones.

The reason is simple. Even though they have native teachers there, they don't use them. They put their info in Google Translate and use it. On websites, billboards, posters, in books, and on paper, they have tons of mistakes.

It wouldn't be too hard to remedy this. All they'd have to do is ask the native speakers to help edit any and everything in English. Better yet, hire someone specifically to do this. People need to swallow their pride and ask for help. If native speakers have people proof-read their work, then non-native speakers should as well. It'll make your school look better and people will stop laughing at mistakes and putting them up on Engrish.com

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Theories about Learning Styles

I wrote about different learning styles back in 2010 and have recently expanded on this topic. If you're interested in reading more about learning styles, there are a number of good books out there that can shed some light on the subject. Here are some articles about learning styles.

• Bloom's Taxonomy: having learning objectives
• Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn 
  
• Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
• Gardner: multiple intelligences theory
• Gregorc: abstract, concrete, random, sequential 
• Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
• How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders
• Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn  
• Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
• Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking

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The Learning Pyramid

From lifewisdominstitute.org

Similar to Bloom's Taxonomy, Dale's Cone and learning styles, the Learning Pyramid shows how different teaching methods can impact what knowledge we retain. It is heavily disputed by many.

• David T Jones
• Gold
• The Washington Post

You'll have to draw your own conclusions and see what works for you and your students. You might also be interested in . . .

• Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn
• Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
• Gardner: multiple intelligences theory
• Gregorc: abstract, concrete, random, sequential 
• Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
• How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders 
• Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn  
• Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
• Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking
• VAK: visual, audio, kinesthetic

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Dale's Cone of Experience

 From http://www2.education.ualberta.ca

Learning styles teach us that everyone learns differently. Dale's Cone of Experience shows us how to help our students use what is taught in the classroom. For example, people usually remember 10% of what they read but 90% of what they do.

After reading you're able to perform basic tasks such as defining, listing, describing, and explaining. However, after doing something you can analyze, design, create, and evaluate.This might be one reason why role plays are so popular in TEFL classes.

It's really interesting to see how people learn differently and what people are able to do after learning something. Bloom's Taxonomy and the Learning Pyramid also have to do with this.

Education Canada has info about how we can use Dale's Cone in second language classes. Not everyone agrees with this. Brain Friendly Trainer wrote about how Dale's Cone has been debunked. The best thing to do is do the research yourself and try different activities with your students.

• Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn
  
• Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
• Gardner: multiple intelligences theory
• Gregorc: abstract, concrete, random, sequential 
• Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
• How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders 
• Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn 
• Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
• Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking
• VAK: visual, audio, kinesthetic

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Learning Styles: Gregorc

Gregorc started his work in 1969 and found there are four ways that people learn

From di-ice.wikispaces.com

• Concrete means that you use your five senses
• Abstract means that you look for hidden meanings
• Sequential means that you like order
• Random means that you look at the whole picture 

Each learner type preference a certain way of learning. 

From browningwrite.home.comcast.net

If you're interested in reading more about learning styles, there are a number of good books out there that can shed some light on the subject. You might also be interested in...

• Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn
  
• Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
• Gardner: multiple intelligences theory
• Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
• How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders
• Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn  
• Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
• Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking

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Learning Styles: Gardner

Updated 18 May 2013

I wrote about different learning styles previously and this post will talk about one of the most well-known research about learning styles was done by Dr. Howard Gardner about Multiple Intelligences.

I got this information from a conference I went to a couple of years ago in Piura, Peru. Unfortunately the presenter didn't put their name on the worksheet, so I don't know exactly who to give credit to.

Linguistically: They think in words.

• They enjoy reading, writing, telling stories, and playing word games.
• They need books, CDs, writing material, paper, diaries, dialogues, discussion, debate, and stories.

Logically-Mathematically: They use reasoning.

• They enjoy experimenting, questioning, logical puzzles, and calculating.
• They need things to explore and think about.
• They like science materials, manipulatives, trips to planetariums or science museums.

Spatially: They think in images and pictures.

• They enjoy designing, drawing, and visualising.
• They need art, legos, videos, movies, slides, imagination games, puzzles, illustrated books.
• They like trips to art galleries and museums.

Bodily-Kinesthetically: They learn by moving.

• They enjoy dancing, running, building, touching, and gesturing.
• They need role plays, drama, things to build, sports, tactile experiences, and hands-on learning.

Musically: They think in rhythms and melodies.

• They need music and instruments.
• They enjoy singing, whistling, humming, tapping their hands and feet, and listening.

Interpersonally: They learn by talking with other people.

• They enjoy leading, organising, relating, manipulating, and talking.
• They need friends, group games, community events, clubs, and mentors.

Intrapersonally: They learn by thinking alone.

• They enjoy setting goals, meditating, dreaming, being quiet, and planning.
• They need time alone, self paced projects, and choices. 

If you want to learn more, there are a number of books written about Multiple Intelligences. You might also be interested in . . .

• Dale's Cone of Experience: best ways to learn 
• Dunn and Dunn: environmental, emotional, social, physiological, psychological
• Gregorc: abstract, concrete, random, sequential
• Honey and Mumford: activist, reflector, theorist, pragmatist
• How boys and girls learn differently: different ways of thinking between genders
• Learning Pyramid: how teaching methods affect how much you learn  
• Kolb: converger, accomodator, assimilator, diverger
• Meyers-Briggs: sensation, intuition, feeling, thinking
• VAK: visual, audio, kinesthetic

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Common TEFL Acronyms

Updated 13 June 2014

Here is a list of commonly used TEFL acronyms compiled from ESL Base, iteslj, Gone2Korea, Teaching ESL to Adults, and TEFL.net.

• 5W's = Who, What, Where, When and Why 
• 4 Skills = Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking

• ABD = All But Dissertation (meaning you've done the coursework for a PhD or EdD)
• ACTFL = American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (USA) 
• ADOS = Assistant Director of Studies
• AOP = Academic Oral Presentations
• APA = American Psychological Association
• ARELS = Association of Recognised English Language Services
• ASD: Autism Spectrum Disorder

• BASELT = British Association of State English Language Teaching
• BE = Bilingual Education / Business English
• BEC = Business English Certificate
• BC = British Council 
• BULATS = Business Language Testing Service

• CAE = Certificate in Advanced English, Cambridge Advanced English
• CALL = Computer Assisted Language Learning 
• CALLA = Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach 
• CALP = Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency 
• CBC = Criminal Background Check
• CBI = Content Based Instruction 
• CEELT = Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers
• CELTA = Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults 
• CELTYL = Certificate in English Language Teaching to Young Learners
• CILT = Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research
• CLIL = Content and Language Integrated Learning
• CLL = Community Language Learning 
• CLT = Communicative Language Teaching 
• CRC = Criminal Record Check
• CPE = Cambridge Proficiency Examination
• CTESOL = Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

• DELTA = Diploma in English Language Training to Adults
• DOS = Director of Studies
• DL = Distance Learning 
• DPhil = Doctorate of Philosophy
• DTEFLA = Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language

• EAL: English as an Additional Language
• EAP = English for Academic Purposes 
• ECIS = European Council of International Schools
• EdD = Doctor in Education
• EFL = English as a Foreign Language (Studying English in non-English-speaking countries) 
• ELI = English Language Instructor
• ELL = English Language Learner 
• ELICOS = English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students
• ELT = English Language Teaching (or sometimes Training)
• EMT = English Mother Tongue
• EMI = English as a Medium of Instruction
• EP = Transitional English Proficiency 
• EPIK = English Programme in Korea
• ESAC = English in Specific Academic Contexts
• ESL = English as a Second Language (Studying English as a non-native speaker in a country where English is spoken.) 
• ESOL = English to Speakers of Other Languages (Note: ESL and EFL are often used interchangeably.) 
• ESP = English for Specific Purposes / English for Special Purposes / English Speaking Environment
• EST = English for Science and Technology 
• EX: Exam Classes

• FCE = First Certificate in English
• FEC = Foreign Expert Certificate
• FEP = Fluent English Proficient (or Proficiency) 
• FES = Fluent English Speaker GTM = Grammar Translation Method
• FLT = Foreign Language Teaching 

• GEPIK = Gyeonggi-do English Programme in Korea
• GET =  Guest English Teacher

• HOD = Head Of Department

• IATEFL = International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (UK) 
• ICELT = In-service Certificate in English Language Teaching
• IDLTM = International Diploma in Language Teaching Management
• IELTS = International English Language Testing System
• IEP = Intensive English program 
• IH = International House
• IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet (or Association)
• KET = Key English Test

• L1 = "Language 1" = the student's native (primary or first acquired) language. 
• L2 = "Language 2" = the language being learned or studied 
• LDT = Language Development Training
• LEP = Limited English Proficiency (or Proficient) 
• LES = Limited English Speaker 
• LL = Language Lab 
• LMS = Language Minority Student 
• LOS = Letter of Release
• LS = Language Support
• LSA = Language Skills Assignment 
• LSAC = Listening and Speaking in Academic Contexts
• LSP = Languages for Special Purposes

• MLA = Modern Language Association 
• MLAT = The Modern Language Aptitude Test 
• MOE =  Ministry of Education, Metropolitan Office of Education
• MONO: Monolingual
• MULT = Multilingual

• NCTE = National Council of Teachers of English (United States of America) 
• NEP = Non English Proficient (or Proficiency) 
• NESE = Non-English Speaking Environment
• NET = Native English Teacher
• NNS = Non-Native Speaker 
• NS = Native Speaker 

• OH = Office hours
• OND = On Demand

• PET = Prelimiary English Test
• PGCE = Post Graduate Certificate in Education
• PhD = Doctor in Philosophy
• POE = Provincial Office of Education 
• PR  = Permanent Residency

• QTS = Qualified Teaching Status

• RP = Resident Permit
• RSA = Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
• RWAC = Reading and Writing in Academic Contexts

• SLA = Second Language Acquisition 
• SMOE =  Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
• SR = Special Requirements
• STT = Student Talking Time Time

• TALK =  Teach and Learn Korea
• TBA = To Be Announced
• TBC = To Be Confirmed
• TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language 
• TESL = Teaching English as a Second Language 
• TESOL = Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.
• TKT = Teaching Knowledge Test
• TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language 
• TOEIC = Test of English for International Communication
• TL = Target Language 
• TPR = Total Physical Response 
• TPRS = Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling
• TSE = Test of Spoken English
• TTT = Teacher Talking Time 
• TWE = Test of Written English 

• UCLES = University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

• VESL = Vocational English as a Second Language 
• VYL  = Very Young Learners

• YL = Young Learners 
• YLE = Young Learners English 

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Cool Link: Starfall

Get kids excited about reading at an early age with Starfall. They use phonics to help young learners and children learn how to read.

Their colourful site takes your students through reading, from learning the ABCs to phonics to reading short stories.

They also have other neat things such as a calendar, 100 Day, a curriculum, and interactive activities, such as making a gingerbread man, snowman, or turkey.


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Cool Link: StoryPlace

Part of the Charlotte Mechklenburg Library, StoryPlace has great material in English and Spanish for young learners and primary students.

They've got themes for the pre-school library as well as online stories and activities as well as take home activities and reading lists. They've got useful info for parents as well. For example, if you go to the primary section, you'll find activities, tales, and reading lists. Reading is great and it's becoming overlooked due to technology, but StoryPlace is a great way to merge these two.



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Cool Link: Sparkle Box

If you teach primary school or young learners, you're going to love this site. Sparkle Box has thousands of products that you can download: all for free.

Choose from literacy, numeracy, topics, signs and labels, classroom management, and other resources and you're on your way to finding great resources for your classroom.  Towards the bottom, they also have photos, books, foreign languages, a sharing zone, info for parents, subjects, CDs / DVDs, and Key Stage 2.They also have great themes, such as Christmas that are well worth checking out.


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Cool Link: Gayle's Preschool Rainbow

Created for preschool and kindergarten teachers, the website Gayle's Preschool Rainbow has lots of themes and activities that you can use in your classroom. Alphabet, animals, counting, seasons, the five senses, family, and arts and crafts are just a few of the themes available. In addition, you can find rhymes, songs, games, circle activites and more. It's a colourful site that's updated often so you'll be sure to find something to use in your class.


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Cool Link: Literacy Center Education Network

With resources in English as well as foreign languages (Spanish, German, and French) the Literacy Center Education Network has lots of material for you to use for free. From learning letters, numbers, colours, shapes and more, they have educational material for preschoolers and young learners.

They have a section for parents and teachers that will help you make the most of their resources. Within this section they also have info for EFL and ESL students. It's a very simple, well organised site.


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Cool Link: Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

If you're looking for literature to use in the classroom, then take a look at Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site.

From Pre-K to 9th grade, there's heaps of material and information for you to use. From book reviews to activities to newsletters and resources, there's so much for your students.

This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

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Cool Link: ABC Teach

If you teach K-8 or at an international school, then take a look at ABC Teach. They've got lots of free materials, like subjects, reading comprehension, holidays, ABCs, interactive, as well as sections divided by levels, and even a special needs section. It's easy to navigate, bright, and colourful.

There is also a tools section which allows you to generate all types of worksheets such as games like bingo and sudoku, or activity sheets, spelling, and ABCs.

They also have a paid membership section which costs about $40 a year. They also have discounts for groups, schools, and districts.

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Cool Link: British Council Learn English Kids

The British Council has long been known for its quality English programme and now they have a website dedicated to children: Learn English Kids. It's simple and colourful with games, multimedia, reading and writing, crafts, and things you can explore.

At the bottom of the page is a list of all the labels they have so you can easily find what you're searching for. I have to say I like this page a lot more than the adult British Council website.

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