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2021: The Year that Inspired my Life-Changing Leap to Thailand

Oxford Seminars — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:22:32 +0000

I am a Canadian actor and now ESL teacher and coach, and this is my story. In 2021, the year when the world locked down and self-isolated, the year that I decided to change my life direction, something happened that I had been longing for and thinking about for many years, but never actualized. I […]

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Teaching Online – An Experienced Teacher Embraces a New Challenge

Oxford Seminars — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:12:34 +0000

My ESL teaching journey began when I ‘retired’ from my career as an early childhood educator and decided it was time to do some traveling. I’ve always been a language nerd and thought it would be fun to do some English teaching abroad. So, I signed up for the Oxford Seminars certificate course, with a […]

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Why I Love Teaching for Oxford Seminars

Oxford Seminars — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:40:24 +0000

I started with Oxford Seminars in March 2015. On the first day of my first course, I was nervous. Teaching a new course is nerve-racking. Still, I had found a vocation in teaching ESL, and I was excited to share my experiences and knowledge with others. Fortunately, the course was a success, and I have now been an […]

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Using games to teach English – 4 great ways to engage your ESL students

Bill Gain — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:37:23 +0000

What influences in your childhood development allowed you to learn English? Was it all of the hours sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher? I suspect that the answer would be “no”. Looking back on my English development as a kid, there were multitudes of resources that helped in my English skills development. If […]

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Going Above and Beyond While Teaching English Abroad

Bill Gain — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:19:24 +0000

As an ESL teacher, we can easily get stuck in a rut. Every day we create lesson plans and carry them out in our classrooms. We stick to the textbook and play a few games to liven up the lessons. We play videos and movies to make it interesting. We might even sing songs or […]

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Do I know enough about English to teach ESL overseas?

Jeremy White — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:11:20 +0000

As an Oxford Seminars instructor, one of the most common concerns I hear from teachers-in-training is that they might not know enough about English to become an effective teacher. Is such a fear justified? The short is answer is no. If you speak English comfortably, you can learn to teach it! But what if I don’t […]

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How to Motivate Your Students & Be a Better ESL Teacher

Robin Garnham — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 21:10:59 +0000

What is the difference between a student that learns and a student that does not? The more that I teach, the clearer it is to me that motivation is almost always the answer. Defining motivation is a little more difficult than identifying it as a problem, as there are many different kinds that come from […]

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Why Teaching ESL is the Perfect Start to a Teaching Career

Guest Author — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:23:27 +0000

I decided to teach ESL in South Korea because I wanted to explore my interest in teaching English abroad to foreign learners. I knew that it would require more schooling for me to teach here in the U.S., so I thought this would be the perfect way to test the waters before investing my time and […]

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Using Yoga to Teach English in India

Guest Author — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 21:24:48 +0000

A teaching moment can appear when you least expect it. If you had told me I could use yoga to teach ESL, I would never have believed you, but then it happened while I was studying in India. Finding New Opportunities while Teaching ESL in India It’s another sweltering, brilliantly sunny day in Kovalam, India, […]

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How Do I Teach ESL Without Speaking the Students’ Language?

Robin Garnham — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:51:16 +0000

I stared at my new teacher incredulously. It was my very first Spanish class, and she was speaking in Spanish, only in Spanish. After the first class I was pretty irritated, but after a week or so it started to make sense. If I was going to learn Spanish, then I needed to be in a Spanish-speaking […]

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