TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Have you ever heard of Wordwall? Wordwall.net is a low-tech way to create your perfect teaching resource and bring engaging games into your classroom. Join Kyra Sage to hear about ways you can quickly and easily access and build your resources. wordwall.net

While getting English Language Learners to participate in classroom activities is often easier said than done, some time-tested methods related to technology. This episode contains several tools for integrating YouTube videos and film into your EL classes that could enormously increase student engagement and participation, especially with teenagers. Join Christian Kallio to learn about YouTube vid...

In a world shaped by digital trends, cellphones are great teaching tools for English language learners (ELLs) who have limited technology available or little access to computers. Hansley Cazeau shares techniques to engage your ELLs using cellphones as part of their language learning process.  Cellphones allow students to:    Create voice recordings Analyze and use language dictionar...

Originally from China, a young linguistic entrepreneur and PhD candidate, Yuchen Lui shares her knowledge of creating a new App to broaden the horizons of using technology for teaching language and culture. Learn how her App will help to fill gaps in the use of technology for linguistic and cultural competencies. Participate in her research and share your cultural background for Beta testing. Cont...

An entrepreneurial English Assistant from Egypt, Alia Attia shares her expertise on presenting with technology, integrating Slidesgo; VoiceThread, and Canva. She highlights techniques for engaging students with these presentation tools. This is a great episode to use in your class to introduce presentation skills and tools to your students.  Slidesgo.com voicethread.com Canva.com bubbl.us ( h...

Join us to hear Dr. Brenda Custodio's tips on building students' vocabulary to increase their reading. In this episode you'll learn techniques for teaching sight words, building on root words, learning word families, and more - all to improve your students' reading comprehension. Dr. Custodio is a former ESL teacher in Columbus, Ohio. She currently works in teacher education at The Ohio State Univ...

Makaela Anderson, a Senior Research Associate for Research Surveys and an adjunct professor for UCSD's EL Institute, shares her expertise in creating a love for reading with your ELLs through comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels. Learn how she engages language learners in reading through comic series such as Burka Avenger and American English resources. She has a wealth of resources to ge...

Natasha Agrawal gained her own confidence in reading and speaking through drama, as a child in India. As a teacher of English language learners (ELLs), she uses drama to integrate English skills. Natasha shares great tips to easily integrate role-play and drama in your classroom to enhance reading with your English language learners. She includes tips such as creating scripts with student input, c...

Randi Perlman shares her expertise in teaching in the U.S. and Finland with tips of incorporating KWL charts, Venn diagrams, and more graphic organizers to activate prior knowledge and build connections with new information. She explains how graphic organizers can be used to introduce topics, organize and visually summarize content, assess comprehension, identify and develop discussion questions....

Originally from Brazil, Luciana is currently working in Germany teaching English and Portuguese. Working with multi-cultural classrooms, sparked her interest in including cultural elements in her teaching. She goes below the surface of the ‘cultural iceberg’ to discuss worldviews and values. She also includes tips, such as telling our personal stories to share our cultures. She encourages tea...

Originally from Brazil, Luciana is currently working in Germany teaching English and Portuguese. Working with multi-cultural classrooms, sparked her interest in including cultural elements in her teaching. She goes below the surface of the ‘cultural iceberg’ to discuss worldviews and values. She also includes tips, such as telling our personal stories to share our cultures. She encourages tea...

With extensive international teaching experience, Joanne Munisteri shares with us her expertise in culturally responsive teaching. She highlights the importance of human interaction and participating in students’ lives outside the classroom. She encourages teachers to learn about students’ ‘mother tongue’, to address cultural and linguistic challenges. She also shares ways to integrate cultural mu...

With extensive international teaching experience, Joanne Munisteri shares her expertise in culturally responsive teaching. She highlights the importance of human interaction and participating in students’ lives outside the classroom. She encourages teachers to learn about students’ mother tongue language and to address cultural and linguistic challenges. She also shares ways to integrate cultural...

Kirsten Dyck, who is currently teaching English at a university in Nanjing, China, has also taught in the Ukraine. She shares her expertise in culturally responsive teaching with engaging ways to encourage student participation and activities for overcoming fears of speaking in class. Dr. Kirsten Dyck teaches EFL at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in Nanjing, China. She previously taught History and...

Ramin Yazdanpanah is a multifaceted and talented educator and founder of Full Circle Language Learning and Teaching Services. He is also a musician and active practitioner of mindfulness techniques. In this episode, he shares with us how to use breathwork and meditation to prepare our English Language Learners for meaningful engagement in our classrooms. Included is a full guided relaxation that a...

Too often, the vocabulary and imagery selected for English Language  Learning classes are disconnected from the learners' experiences.  Instead of choosing and showing imagery of items from learners' homes,  communities, and cultures, images from Western cultures are used. By selecting vocabulary that is a part of learners' everyday lives and pairing it with familiar imagery, teache...

Educators Worldwide board member Dr. Aileen Hale, shares her expertise in Service-Learning (SL), a contemporary application of Experiential  Education. She shares the "what, why, and how" of integrating SL into your classroom - an effective method for language acquisition with students of all ages and stages of learning.

An Outreach Coordinator at Georgetown University, and a prior EL Fellow in Ukraine, author Nicholas Gordan has developed Conversational Writing as an experiential education technique, to engage students in writing in and outside of the classroom. He shares engaging tips to enhance writing fluency through conversation.     Conversational Writing: An Interactive Approachhttps: https:/...

A board member with Educators Worldwide and a prior English Language Fellow in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Beth Trudell shares experiential techniques for assessments. Listen for her tips on alternative assessments, where students learn from each other, success is promoted, and fears disappear. Both teachers and students love the process!

Currently working as an English language lecturer at a university in Saudi Arabia, Dr. Peter Edwards shares an experiential learning technique of "presenting live". He describes the process of teaching ELLs to gain confidence for real-life use of their language through presenting to strangers on a subway!

Amna Habiba is an inspiring young teacher and leader who founded Global  Creative Hub when she was 14 years old. This social development initiative is working towards making every Pakistani girl youth digitally literate. The mission is to make the world a more equal place for all girls to live in and strive towards a better future.  In this episode, Amna shares how stories motivated her...

As a 2021 Virtual TESOL Convention presenter, Zeboniso Murodova Sabzalievna, shared "Tajik Voices" with digital stories from Tajikistan. In this episode, she shares her personal and professional experiences creating her own digital story and then teaching her students the process of digital storytelling. Both the process and student successes are highlighted in this episode. She explains how she u...

A former English Language Fellow in Kosovo and ESL elementary school teacher for 15 years, Brooke shares her expertise in Oral Storytelling,  based on her use of [https://themoth.org](https://themoth.org/). Listen and learn the art of oral storytelling with all ages.  Links for this episode: Do You Know Scale by Dr. Fivush and Dr. Marshall Duke:  https://legacystories.org/do-you-kno...

Hansley Cazeau, an English Language Fellow to Montenegro, shares Storytelling Tips for EL teachers, emphasizing the importance of cadence of speech, inflection of voice, as well as clear pronunciation and intonation. He shares several great resources for students to record their voices, while telling stories, for teacher input, feedback, and assessment.

Master storyteller Eva Grayzel joins the TTELT podcast to share her enthusiasm for engaging language learners through interactive storytelling. Eva has been sharing stories with international audiences for over 30 years. In this episode, she highlights strategies for improving language retention, making language come alive, using total physical response techniques combined with storytelling.