Category: Struggling Students

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Teachers! Stop Yourselves and Your Students From Feeling Like This

English language students staring back at you with blank faces when you mention previously 'taught' material doesn't give you the best feeling for the rest of your well-planned lesson. According to your class register, these students were definitely present in physical form last week. Apparently, their thoughts were elsewhere. Perhaps they were daydreaming about skydiving … Continue reading Teachers! Stop Yourselves and Your Students From Feeling Like This

English Language Learning, ESL EFL Students, Grammar, Struggling Students

Teachers: Are You Using This Simple, Effective Grammar Technique?

There are various ways of presenting English grammar. If students aren't responding to the techniques used, teachers perhaps need to think, let's simplify it. What would help them? There are 12 major verb tenses in the English language (always under discussion). They can be confusing to learn and their names difficult to remember: Present Simple, … Continue reading Teachers: Are You Using This Simple, Effective Grammar Technique?

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, English Language Learning, ESL EFL Students, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Information Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Short-term working memory, Struggling Students

Teachers: Are Your Demands Overloading Your Students?

For English language teachers, it is important to know when planning lessons that the temporary storage space available in the short-term working memory system is limited.

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, ESL EFL Students, Language Learning Difficulties, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Struggling Students

Are First Language Difficulties Causing Second Language Learning Struggles?

If a student seems to be having difficulties with their English language studies, you may have to investigate the cause in order to provide a solution. Check whether your students had difficulties acquiring any of the language skills in their L1 and if they still have difficulties.

English Language Learning, ESL EFL Students, Language Theories, Second Language Learning, Struggling Students

Teachers: How Many Ways Can You Write The Sound /sh/?

How many ways can you represent the sound /sh/ in written form. When students seem to be struggling or progressing slowly, perhaps check the depth or transparency of the target language.

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Teachers: Struggling Students? What You Need To Know

If you have students in your classrooms who are under-performing in an unexpected way and their progress does not correspond to the amount of work and determination they are investing, it is possible they have an undiagnosed learning disability or specific learning disorder.

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Struggling ESL EFL Students: Top Forgotten Factors To Consider First

ESL EFL teachers or professionals need to be aware that English language students have qualities and learning differences that can enhance or hold back their language acquisition process. However, the language itself also has components that may inhibit learning.

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Your Students Aren’t Learning! Understand Why

Today, in classrooms, hundreds of struggling EFL ESL students of all ages and levels sit frustrated and suffering and feeling like failures. Teachers often wonder why they can’t keep up and view them as ‘slow learners’ or think “they are not motivated and just not trying hard enough”. Most teachers of English aren’t trained to instruct students who do not fit into the ‘norm’.