A panoply of teaching resources.
This weekend, I will have the good fortune to participate in a KOTESOL conference in Wonju, South Korea. The topic of my workshop presentation is Teach Writing Thinkingly. The main argument is that ESL students can learn to write powerful and persuasive English text if they use an inquiry based approach.
This week the ESL students will write some more and prepare for the quiz.
Last week there were many holidays and missed classes because of the university festival. This week, the 11th of the semester, we will continue with our ESL writing exercises.
The three writing assignments we are working on (two old ones plus a new one this week) give students a chance to practice a simple but important framework to find and analyze arguments and warrants.
This is another exercise that helps ESL learn how to write arguments in English. The four part framework for this activity is as follows: