Category: Foreign Language Learning Difficulties

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, English Language Learning, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Information Processing, Language Learning Difficulties, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Long-term memory, Memory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Teachers

Teachers: Are Your Teaching Methods Stimulating the Senses?

To aid information storage in long-term memory and later retrieval, English language teachers (EFL ESL) need to use a combination of multi-sensory teaching methods to introduce and later rehearse and recycle material.

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Information Processing, Long-term memory, Memory, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Teachers, Uncategorized

Attention! Do Your Teaching Methods Pass The Long-Term Memory Check List?

Unfortunately, long-term semantic memory is known to have the weakest retrieval system. Therefore, ESL EFL teachers have to make sure many neurological paths and connections are made and developed so English language students can store subject matter securely and retrieve information easily.

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, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Language Learning Difficulties, Language Theories, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Learning Difficulties

Struggling Students? Four Little-Known Theories Explain Why

There are always a number of students in foreign language classes that can't seem to keep up with the pace of the other students. The following four theories may help teachers pinpoint the root of their ESL / EFL students' difficulties.

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, English Language Learning, ESL EFL Students, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Language Learning Difficulties, Language Theories, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Writing / Orthography

Are Different Writing Systems Causing Language Learning Difficulties?

One reason why ESL and EFL students may be having difficulty learning a foreign or second language is that they rely heavily on their native language (L1) writing system and the English orthography differs greatly to their L1.  

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, English Language Learning, ESL EFL Students, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Language Learning Difficulties, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Second Language Learning, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Struggling Students, Teachers

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.

EFL ESL Teachers / Professionals, ESL EFL Students, Foreign Language Learning Difficulties, Language Learning Difficulties, Learning Disabilties / Disorders, Second Language Learning Difficulties, Struggling Students, Teachers

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’.