Category Archives: Teaching EAP/ESP

News: Credit for Teaching – Inside Higher Ed

News: Credit for Teaching – Inside Higher Ed.

http://trails.asanet.org/Pages/default.aspx

This is an interesting initiative to peer review and share teaching materials in sociology. Especially in the field of ESP, there is a lack of ways to share quality teaching materials and for faculty to get some credit for them. There is too much emphasis on publishing papers that may only have a limited impact in a field when there would be a much wider audience for quality teaching. The materials must not only be peer reviewed but the authors have to provide evidence of effectiveness–making it more like an action research project.

Research on lexis and grammar to be published in TESOL Quarterly « Kanda University’s English Language Institute (ELI)

Research on lexis and grammar to be published in TESOL Quarterly « Kanda University’s English Language Institute (ELI).

More people in the field should be providing video of their research methods and discuss them as is being done here.

This type of content could have be linked to a published journal article as additional materials, as is the case with some science articles that refer readers to online datasets. In short, there is not enough clarity in the exact methods being used in TESOL research and we are not making enough use of multimedia in research.

Why not upload the original audio files in addition to transcripts for conversation analysis, for example?

Oxford University Press | The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

Oxford University Press | The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition.

I will definitely buy this book. Any teacher’s approach to teaching is underpinned by assumptions about psychology, whether these assumptions are clearly articulated or not. Overall, I think TESOL training neglects the field of educational psychology (as opposed to SLA theory).