An interview with Vivek Nair, Director at School of the Nations Vivek Nair is the Director at School of the Nations. He undertook the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) tutor training in 2019 and recently delivered his first Teacher Course as a certified tutor. Tell us a …
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6 tips for successful close reading with young learners
Close reading is “an approach to teaching comprehension that insists students extract meaning from text by examining carefully how language is used in the passage itself” (Snow and O’Connor, 2013). This approach can be used with young children and will help develop their understanding of a …
LfL at Hume Central Secondary College
We are very excited to share a very useful resource produced by the Department of Education and Training in Victoria. The EAL Effective Practice Interactive Guide features a series of literacy-based video case studies and resources, and follows the successful implementation of Lexis Education's …
Language for expressing emotions
Effective writers and speakers are able make language choices across the text to engage their audiences, creating a sense of solidarity with them and influencing them to share their view of the world. Our students need to learn how to do this and particularly how to make their stance clear in the …
An easy step-by-step with functional grammar
Words by Fiona Kettle-Muspratt. Fiona is a peripatetic ESL teacher in the Gold Coast region of the state of Queensland in Australia. She works with all levels of ESL students (new arrivals through to extension) from Year 1-7 in groups from 4 to 10. Tim is a 12-year-old ESL student. Here are three …
Substitution, ellipsis and collocation: a rundown
Pronouns can stand in place of things and, in that way, provide a tool for making a text cohesive. But, we can have other words stand in for things and often we can completely omit words, too, and these also help make a text cohesive. Substitution Substitution is the use of words such as ‘one’ and …