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When Our Students Speak their Truth: Engaging Critical and Creative ESL Teaching Through Spoken Word Poetry
We take a look at research-based, creative, and critical approaches to teaching ESL through spoken word poetry.
May 1, 2024


Picturebooks in Elementary English Education to Promote Empathy and Social Justice
Insights from the ICEPELL project focus on intercultural citizenship education through picturebooks in early English language learning.
Apr 9, 2024


Building Secondary Student Confidence To Communicate From the Nunavik Context
We take a look at strength-based teaching practices with Gillian Warner, a secondary ESL teacher, to create psychologically safe spaces.
Mar 13, 2024


Drama Techniques for Language Teaching
We share various drama activities that can be used in second language classrooms.
Feb 7, 2024


Teaching ESL From an Anti-Biased Anti-Racist Perspective
Mimi Masson shares about teaching language from an anti-biased, anti-racist perspective with examples.
Jan 18, 2024


Warriors and Rebels for Peace: Cultivating Social Agents of Change in English Teaching
We discuss a case study on social justice and peacebuilding curriculum taught in an English classroom in Columbia.
Dec 6, 2023


Stories to Tell: ESL Teachers and Pre- Service Teachers Experiences in the French Language Schools of Quebec
We share data collected from pre-service and in-service ESL teachers through surveys, interviews, and focus groups over five years.
Nov 9, 2023


Working Towards Decolonizing ESL
Jacqueline discussed how her teaching helped students to address essential questions within the context of Canada’s history of colonization.
Oct 3, 2023


A closer look at the lives and literacies of gamers as second language users and teachers
We discuss how gaming is capitalized by second language learners to acquire their target language.
Jun 5, 2023
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