The Art and Science of Correcting Students
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which we ESL teachers tend to fall: that of constantly correcting our students’ every error, and that of never correcting anything.
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Managing the Mixed-Level Class
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The question is how to:
- Teach different things to different groups (i.e., different levels)
- Keep everyone usefully busy
- Not neglect some while teaching others
- Successfully teach everyone what they need to know
Musings on ESL and on the ELLs it Exists to Benefit
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Over many decades, in the history of both bilingual education and ESL, there have sometimes been very bad tradeoffs: good things that went bad, and bad things replaced by different bad things, with unintended consequences for students.
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