Teachers know that students don’t like writing assignments, especially those with strict requirements and deadlines. To break up the monotony of those typical tasks, ask ESL students to write short ...

Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and students alike. The topic is no stranger to this column—you can see many previous related posts at Writing Instruction.

Rather, they view English 110 as an important stage in their personal character arc. “I think very few students imagine they will discover anything about themselves in a first-year writing course,” ...

The single most effective strategy I have used and would highly recommend when teaching English-language learners is the use of sentence frames for writing and speaking, the productive skills ...

Teachers need to provide time for writing on a regular basis; they need to encourage ESL children to write; they need to promote writing by responding to the content of the text rather than to the ...

After almost five years teaching writing, English, ESL, and humanities courses to high school students and undergraduates, I have come to the conclusion that it is a serious mistake to ground ...

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Program Requirements (3 credits each) ESL 501* Approaches to Teaching Second Languages (prerequisite course) ESL 503* Second Language Assessment ...

Department of English Writing. Reading. Publishing. Thinking. The Department of English is committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and creative performance. We offer undergraduate programs ...

Teaching research English, particularly the writing of papers, to nonnative speakers (NNS) has not been given the attention it needs. Available evidence points both to the overwhelming role of English ...