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A Few Thoughts on Task-Based Instruction

I appreciate Belgar and Hunt’s (2002) attempts to integrate a task-based syllabus into the English as a Foreign Language curriculum […]

Although the field of language education has seen many advances during the last two decades, especially when it comes to

Left: Richard preparing a “lesson” for great aunt Evelyn (October, 1980: Beckley, West Virginia) Right: Richard and sister Crissy working

When I studied phonetics and phonology for the first time in the early 1990s, the academic focus was almost entirely

I would like to share my experiences with language assessment in my current instructional context–an intensive English program for international

I think that the most effective approach to teaching article usage depends mainly on the specific teaching context involved, since

Although heavy emphasis is typically placed on word formation, especially inflection and derivation, in most ESL/EFL curricula, only a small

In their introduction to chapter 9, Celce-Murcia et al. (1996) assert that ESL instructors should “teach their learners (1) how

“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th

As someone who has studied Spanish since the age of thirteen and has lived in a predominantly Spanish-speaking city for