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Once Upon a Time in the LAUSD: Storytelling in the ELL Classroom

  • ESL
  • January 10, 2011
In the year 2002-2003 more than 320, 594 English language learners (ELLs) were enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles...
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The Stories Of Our Lives: ESL Writing Tips for the New Year

  • ESL
  • January 4, 2011
Although writing processes from the first to the second language differ, there are basic elements that are similar across languages (Kendall &...
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Reading skill and comprehension must be assessed separately

Dear Dr. Fournier:I am in my second year of teaching and am employed at a local middle school. We have several students who are immigrants and are...
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Review of two free online survey tools

Surveys can be useful, informative and even fun for classroom teachers, adult educators, online teachers and administrators. Creating surveys,...
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Essential EFL teacher's textbook

  • learning and teaching
  • May 6, 2011
This is a brief review of Principles of language learning and teaching 4th ed. by Douglas Brown. Douglas Brown's Principles of language...
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Differentiated instruction allows flexibility

Students' personalities vary as do teachers and their teaching techniques. Naturally, it is impossible to accommodate every student in every...
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Asian students have reasons for high-ranking scores (Part 3)

  • USA education
  • February 18, 2011
The previous two sections of this series mentioned justifications for Korea, China and Japan consistently ranking in the top spots on the PISA test...
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Asian students have reasons for high-ranking scores (Part 2)

  • PISA OECD
  • February 11, 2011
This is part 2 in a series of articles addressing the PISA international standardized test results and how USA compares to Asian countries such as...
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India's students have high English skills

  • india youth
  • January 10, 2011
According to experience and reports of several resources, India's youth have high English skills.So high in fact, that South Korea is allowing...
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Examples of innovative architecture and design of schools

  • school architecture
  • November 17, 2010
In a previous article in the national EFL Examiner I briefly mentioned that some modern school architects have gained inspiration from airport...
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