ELL Blog

Impact and Influence: Motivational Tools for Millennial Teachers and Gen Z   How do generation gaps play out in the classroom? Given that teachers and students can be several generations apart, their beliefs, politics, and values tend to be...

Using Authentic Resources to Deliver Comprehensible Input in the Classroom   Eventually, every language student gets tired of conjugating verbs, rote memorization, and learning the same basic vocabulary words. How do we keep students engaged...

Cultivating Motivation for Diverse Language Learners   For many language teachers, student motivation issues can be among the most difficult challenges they encounter in the classroom. While lack of motivation can occur with all subjects, it’s...

How to Teach Different Age Groups Online   Supporting learners with differing abilities and attention spans can certainly have its challenges. In our “new normal” of online learning, these challenges take on a whole new meaning. How can we...

Keeping Connected: Leveraging Body Language as your Virtual Superpower   Did you know that, in a 30-minute conversation, two people can send over 800 nonverbal signals? As a language teacher, so much of your energy is spent on verbal...

Inspiring Apprentices: The Master Teacher’s Toolbox   As language teachers, the goal of our lessons should be more than conjugating verbs, learning vocabulary and knowing the content. Ideally, we want our students to use the new language...