Teaching English as a Second Language

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Discover why teaching English online is a great work-at-home opportunity.

Picking out a career track is difficult for anyone, especially college students. This article focuses on the positive benefits of teaching ESL.

Is it possible that works translated into other languages can actually be better than the original?

Comics are really good for practice if you want to increase your vocabulary and learn how to use typical expressions in a natural way.

Easy notes for elementary students: you can make this into an overhead

Did you ever wonder where our language came from.Why do we spell words the way we do? Where did these words even come from?

Ideas for managing an online ESL classroom.

ESL teachers and students should strive to be better communicators in English rather than achieving that perfect English accent.

American popular culture has been doing more than adding cute phrases and silly sentences to English. It has been fomenting the destruction of English itself!

English should remain the primary language of the U.S. In Lawson Inada's "Kicking the Habit" the author describes the discomfort in conforming to the culture of the U.S. His views will be argued against.

Is English the hardest language in the world for foreign speakers to learn?

Unfortunately, there are places where employees do not know how to speak the language and they are forced to speak whatever their English sounds like to be able to earn a paycheck in this tough economy.

The importance of keeping the native tongue because your speech tells about history/background.

English Heritage membership guarantees free or lower cost entrance fees to historic British castles, palaces, stately homes and more. But is it worth the membership cost?

From ancient manuscripts to the Internet, English resists the efforts of English teachers and lawmakers to keep it under contro.

Should English be the only language of instruction in our classrooms?

A quotable quote about the English language.

Discusses some of the strange properties of the English Language.

This is a report about the Jeremy Paxman book, The English, a Portrait of a People.

English is a well known language and has often been referred to as a "world language". So what do you think about the English Language? Is it important now a days? Why?

The commonly used terms and acronyms in the ESOL area of education.

This essay uses an Middle English poem to illustrate the prepositional and syntactical differences between and transformations from Old English to Middle English.

What in the world is Scots? It is a Germanic language, just like English. It's the closest language to English. It's spoken in the highlands of Scotland. I always thought it was just another weird English accent when I heard it on the television.

This is a poem I wrote due to the fact that I couldn't communicate with someone over the telephone as she had a very strong accent and I didn't understand her, she didn't understand me either.

It is only natural that colleagues who come from the same country will want to converse in their own language at work. But many English-speaking colleagues are often offended and wonder whether they are speaking in a derogative manner toward others

"People have always come to the United States because in the mind of the world it is a place of real opportunity. The hidden costs of democracy, of assimilation, are not spelled out in the papers they must file to live here."

Speaking English is necessary for most success in the U.S. Business transactions are typically done in English. Drivers ought to be able to read signs and voters definitely need to be able to read ballots.

As the world moves towards English-speaking homogeny, it raises questions about cultural identity. This issue of identity effects both non-native and native English speakers.

It is not uncommon for a company to deal with foreign customers. This is not the only reason, but one of the most popular ones, why translators are needed.