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		<title>Could You Repeat That?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tamara Jones ESL Instructor, SHAPE Language Center, Belgium jonestamara@hotmail.com I just finished a 3 week scuba certification. In addition to learning all sorts of things that will (hopefully) keep me alive in the water, I also, unexpectedly, learned a lot about teaching. You might know from reading some of my previous blogs, that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That’s Not Really Hard, So Why Don’t They Get it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Firsten Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author Have you ever taken a course in another language? If you have, then you entered the realm of comparative linguistics without even realizing it. That’s because you would be subconsciously comparing how something is said in your native language to how it’s said in the language [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/08/that%e2%80%99s-not-really-hard-so-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-get-it/</link>
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		<title>Dialogues for Beginners: Snooping at Techniques of “Non-ESL” Language Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ela Newman Instructor in Developmental Writing and in ESL University of Texas at Brownsville newjgea@aol.com The story below, which is almost twenty years old, is still worth a few chuckles to my friend and me, and it’s recently gained an additional value: this summer our recollection of an elementary school incident prompted not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/08/dialogues-for-beginners-snooping-at-techniques-of-%e2%80%9cnon-esl%e2%80%9d-language-teachers/</link>
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		<title>The Life Cycle of a Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tamara Jones ESL Instructor, SHAPE Language Center, Belgium jonestamara@hotmail.com Do you remember those “The Life Cycle of the Frog” pictures we often had to study in science when we were kids? You know, “the egg to tadpole to tadpole-with-legs to frog” graph? Well, wouldn’t it be handy for ESL educators to study a graph [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/08/the-life-cycle-of-a-teacher/</link>
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		<title>The Flexibility of Thought-Provoking Conversations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Firsten Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author One of the many challenges that all teachers face is finding ways to keep the learning experience interesting and dynamic. A good way to do this in a language classroom is to introduce thought-provoking themes or topics that students will relish discussing. Not only are such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/08/the-flexibility-of-thought-provoking-conversations/</link>
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		<title>Auxiliary Topics for Students’ Journals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ela Newman Instructor in Developmental Writing and in ESL University of Texas at Brownsville newjgea@aol.com “I love black cats. I love black cats. I love black cats.” This is how one of my fellow EFL student’s English journal entry started, and continued.  The same line echoed on for an entire page, and, believe it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/08/auxiliary-topics-for-students%e2%80%99-journals/</link>
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		<title>Move Over Learning Curve!  Bring on the Learning Square!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tamara Jones ESL Instructor, SHAPE Language Center, Belgium jonestamara@hotmail.com In the middle of a lesson about the second conditional, I was calling on students to check a routine grammar exercise from the text that they had just completed in pairs. One student, Guy, shared the correct answer and I praised him, “Well done!” At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/07/move-over-learning-curve-bring-on-the-learning-square/</link>
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		<title>Go with the Flow: Yes or No?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Firsten Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author I taught ESOL for over 35 years before I retired, and over all those years I learned to enjoy the challenges of teaching grammar the most. There were rules. I taught the rules, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly by example. There were right ways to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/07/go-with-the-flow-yes-or-no/</link>
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		<title>Playing Games, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dorothy Zemach ESL Materials Writer, Editor, Teacher Trainer Eugene, Oregon Email: zemach at comcast dot net Concentration Many students will already know this classic matching game, but even if they don’t, it’s not hard to explain. I use this game as a vocabulary review. Allow a good 45 minutes! And with the extension activities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/07/playing-games-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Colors: Beyond the Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ela Newman Instructor in Developmental Writing and in ESL University of Texas at Brownsville newjgea@aol.com Looking into my closet the other month, my best friend said that my clothes seemed “uninspired.”  She surveyed my blues, greys, and beiges with increasing dismay, and concluded that the colors of my clothes simply blurred into one another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://azargrammar.com/teacherTalk/blog/2010/07/colors-moving-beyond-the-beginning-levels-and-the-basic-hues/</link>
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