Hi! I'm a green hand in teaching ESL. I wonder how do teachers in English speaking countries comment on writing. For some great articles, would it be proper to comment "Well organized" ? Can you suggest more comments for nice articles? For the articles written not so well, how to comment...

I read an interview on Mr. Yoshifumi Saito in a recent issue of the vernacular Asahi Shimbun (lit. Asahi Newspaper). He is a professor at the state-run University of Tokyo, known as the most prestigious university in Japan. His opinion is rather shocking to me because he says that the acquisition of...

Hello, Can anyone give me some simple, if at all possible, tips for teaching pronunciation to ESL students? I have some experience working with adults, however I am soon beginning a new position teaching children ages 7-17. When I was teaching adults, I had an English conversation textbook that my school...

Hi, I am considering teaching conversational English (mostly private tutoring, not necessarily the class room) and was wondering if anyone out there could recommend any particularly good books dealing with teaching conversational English to ESL students (grade school up to adult). Any help would be greatly...

My textbook on English conversation says when asking for directions, the phrase to use is "How *can* I get to the station?" But I have a feeling that "How *do* I get to the station?" might be more common. When I googled for the former, sure enough, most of the hits I got were ESL...

Hi, I will be interning abroad and needing some supplemental income. Many of my ESL friends have told me that I should have no problem finding informal "conversational English tutoring" jobs (we shall see). Should I be so lucky as to get a few jobs I would like to have at least a little reference...

We are hosting a student from South Korean who would like to learn English. We are looking for a good school for her to learn conversational English. She will be staying with us in Vancouver for about 3 to 5 months and is looking for a good full time English course. I have heard about a few schools and...

Today I was listening to a song while driving. If I said instead that I heard a song while driving, I think it would be understood a different way. I was listening to a song = something I was doing intentionally. I heard a song = something I did more or less by accident. There's no real point in...