At advanced levels ESL student, the problem is mainly receptive - they have problems in understanding the words they come across in written texts or when speaking to native speakers. However, at lower levels the problem is also productive - they don't have enough words to express what they want to talk about.
Why don’t role-plays always work as well as they might? Here I’d like to suggest that it’s sometimes because students are thrown into the activity without sufficient preparation.
by Judie Haynes
Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono in the book New Think. It refers to solving problems through an indirect and creative approach. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
By Shelley Vernon
I’d like to make the case today that most of us are in the position to endorse one of the most basic premises of content-based instruction (CBI) and that’s making a dual commitment to language and content learning.
There are many things which can interfere with effective reading. Some of these involve common sense, and can be easily changed. Others are more subtle, and may require long and patient effort if they are to be overcome. Obviously, we should make the simple changes first, since these will give the greatest improvement with the least effort.
An experiment carried out by Dr. Perry (psychologist), Director of the Harvard Reading-Study Center.
Tense can be defined as the linguistic expression of time relations. Time is independent of language and is common to all human beings. It is conceptualized by many peoples, though not necessarily by all, as being divided into past time, present time and future time.
