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"IN PERAK on the northern Peninsular Malaysia, an English teacher uses textbooks meant for seven-year-olds to teach her Form One class of students, mostly aged 13. "When I first taught them, they could not even tell the difference between 'when' and 'what'," the teacher, who wants to be known only as Yee, told The Straits Times recently. "I had to put my planned lessons aside and start with the basics." It is the type of story many English teachers in Malaysia share, but are reluctant to speak openly about because they worry about being sanctioned by the education ministry. And so, when the ministry recently announced that from 2016 onwards, students in Form Five - the equivalent of a GCE O-level class in Singapore - must pass English before they can obtain their school-leaving certificates, it set tongues wagging. After all, last year, almost a quarter of 470,000 Form Five students failed English, and only 16 per cent of them scored highly in the language."

There are new web 2.0 tools appearing every day. Although some of these tools were not originally meant for use in the classroom, they can be extremely effective learning tools for today's technology geared students and their venturesome teachers. Many of these teachers are searching for the latest products and technologies to help them find easier and efficient ways to create productive learning in their students. More and more teachers are using blogs, podcasts and wikis, as another approach to teaching. We have created a list of 100 tools we think will encourage interactivity and engagement, motivate and empower your students, and create differentiation in their learning process.

Learning styles of students and teachers affect both how students learn and teachers teach. I based my research on Kolb's learning styles study, with a learning index evaluation by Solomon and Felder. What was found is how different individuals learn information. Original doc file here: http://www.redrockdata.com/matportfolio/files/Learning%20styles%20reflective%20essay.doc

For each learning intention, choose one thinking, content knowledge, resource, product of learning, and number of students involved. Very convenient!

A group of educators interested in sharing and learning about the power of technology integration into their teaching practices.

A very helpful collection of links for teachers to better their professional (and personal) lives.

For Teachers of English as a Second Language articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links

According to Wikipedia, "collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance." While language learners can build knowledge of collocations through extensive reading and listening, this is not something that we can do effectively by design in the classroom. Here are a few things for teachers to keep in mind when they consider teaching collocations.

A collection of other people's ideas that are inspiring my teaching.

teaching. blogging. learning

Collective of ideas/resources for teaching/learning.

These are the ideas included in Hall Houston's Random ESL Idea Generator. If you have a JavaScript-enabled browser, you can use the generator to get a randomly-selected idea from this list. Perhaps you will find it useful to print out this list and refer to it from time to time.

The shortage of trained English language teachers is one of the reasons for the students' poor grasp of the language, National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) president Hashim Adnan said yesterday. "Most of the teachers have a poor command of the language. How do you expect students to learn English when the teachers themselves do not know the basics of the language?

Group games are shared experiences that are memorable and fun! They are great for promoting unity, teamwork, camaraderie, or for teaching valuable lessons. We've gathered our favorite games and provided instructions, rules, variations, and other useful information.