Learning to teach ESL

In this unit, my class was directed to choose a chapter to read from the book Developing materials for language teaching. I chose the chapter called “Materials for teaching vocabulary”, which was written by Paul Nation (2014). I chose to read this chapter because my lesson plan for Assignment #3 involves teaching vocabulary to newcomers who are adult ESL literacy learners. This chapter...

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One of the readings we were assigned to read this week is a chapter called ‘Adapting courses: A personal view.” It is from a book called ‘Developing materials for language teaching” and was written by Claudia Saraceni. I was surprised by how much I took away from reading this chapter. It compares a teacher-centred approach for adapting courses to a student-centred approach. This...

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