TESOL International Association

Nov 18, 2024 | tesol.org | Tan Huynh |Valentina Gonzalez |Betsy Gilliland |Eric Gómez Burgos

An important pillar of reading comprehension is background knowledge. Some of our multilingual learners of English (MLEs) will come with the required background knowledge needed to meet their learning objectives, and others will need to learn new content and further develop their background knowledge.

Jul 31, 2024 | tesol.org | Tomiko Breland

by Tomiko Breland, Associate Director, Publications | TESOL International Association is seeking applications for the nextTESOL Quarterly (TQ) editor, who will serve a 5-year term beginning June 2025. The deadline for applications is 15 September 2024.

Jul 18, 2024 | tesol.org | Brent Warner |Betsy Gilliland |Eric Gómez Burgos |Sarah Hodge

For many of us, summer is the time when we have dreams of sitting poolside and reading trashy novels, allowing our brains to reset after another full year of delivering lessons, helping students with their homework, making sure we complete all the testing required by our districts, volunteering on steering committees, and basically anything else that comes our way. Yes, summer is a great time to recharge the batteries, but we all know it doesn’t last forever.

Jan 16, 2024 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

For as long as there’s been language teaching, there have been teachers cutting pictures out of magazines, asking students to draw pictures of their hometowns, taking photos of unique locations, saving CDs full of clipart, downloading photos from the web, and making use of just about every image they can get their hands on. Today, in the AI-enhanced classroom, we can build on all of our favorite picture-based activities and delve even further into creative possibilities.

Dec 17, 2023 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

We all get to that point in the year where we just want something fun and light: a quick activity that can refresh the brain but not be too taxing. For years, the arguments have gone back and forth about whether activities like word searches are pedagogically valuable, and recent literature reviews (like this one from Pioneer and this one from the Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review) show that students who participate in these activities show improved vocabulary mastery.