This episode takes a closer look at how EAP students can cooperate and collaborate as a team to deepen and increase each member's understanding of the topic. While some discussions are designed to allow students to demonstrate their stored knowledge of a topic, many discussions can be utilized in the Socratic manner of developing each participant's understanding of a topic. Just as a basketball team works together to set up scoring, or any other sports team, so too can a discussion that works like a team.
This episode addresses the challenge of the communicative language teaching (CLT) classroom for EAP students who have no familiarity with this teaching approach. Not...
In this episode, Laura celebrates a major moment of witnessing EAP learners who had fantastic discussions. She then analyzes the success of those discussions...
In this episode, Laura reflects upon and explains some teaching activities she has recently used with EAP students in an effort to increase learner...