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Teaching English Through Sports: A Case Study
Teaching English as a Second Language through sports activities gives immense benefits to learners. It promotes active learning of the language in any environment, whether urban or rural. It not only enhances learning of the English Language but also the intellectual, physical and social development of the learners.
Dynamic Assessment: A Call for Change in Assessment
While the results of static testing -assessing current performance levels- indicate the already existent abilities of the students, dynamic assessment is believed to evaluate the ability of the students to learn from the interaction with a teacher. This learning ability, as Poehner and Lantolf (2003) suggest, may serve as a better predictor of the students’ educational needs than the static scores if it can be evaluated properly.
Will Baker
I received an MA in applied linguistics and TESOL for Leicester University in 2003 and am currently in the final stages of an ESRC funded PhD at the University of Southampton. I have been teaching English for over 10 years, both in the UK and Asia, and continue to do so at the University of […]
Dr. Joan Cutting
Dr. Joan Cutting Senior Lecturer in TESOL Curriculum Research & Development The Moray House School of Education The University of Edinburgh Charteris Land, room 5.09A Holyrood Road Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ Joan Cutting is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL in the University of Edinburgh. She has worked in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Nanning, Hefei, Chongqin, Nanjing, […]
David Litz
David Litz is currently a lecturer with the University General Requirements Unit at UAE University and he has previously taught in South Korea and Canada. He is presently working on a doctorate in education from the University of Calgary and his professional interests include: testing and assessment, educational administration, teacher training and action research.
Nolan Weil
Nolan Weil is Associate Professor of ESL in the Intensive English Language Institute (IELI) at Utah State University where he teaches courses in academic reading, writing, and oral discourse, as well as various content-based topics courses. He is particularly interested in reading pedagogy and is an advocate of the coordinated use of extensive reading to […]
Chen, Yong
Professor Chen Yong works as an EFL and ESP teacher, researcher, curriculum developer, course designer and material writer in higher education and organization training programmes as such in EAP and EOP. Her first university degree is on English for ship-building Industry which is the first ESP degree course in China from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her […]
Malcolm Benson
Malcolm Benson was born in England but educated in Ireland (Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin). He is a Professor at Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan, where he has taught English, Applied Linguistics, and Culture courses since 1987. His earlier experiences included teaching English in Zambia, England, Kenya, and Saudi Arabia. He holds a Ph.D. from […]
Toshinobu Nagamine
Toshinobu Nagamine is currently an associate professor of English teacher education at Kumamoto University, Japan, where he teaches English phonetics, English linguistics, and EFL teacher education courses. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition & TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, and an M.A. in TESOL from Murray State University, USA. His research interests include teacher […]
John Unger
John Unger teaches EAP courses at Georgia Gwinnet College in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA. He has worked and studied in a wide variety of ESL/EFL and developmental English contexts for 20 years. He has published, presented papers and workshops, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses revolving around TESOL, gesture and language, writing, developmental English, linguistics, traditional English grammar and usage, […]
