Teaching auxiliary verbs to beginners
One of the common challenges that EFL teachers face is teaching students to use auxiliary verbs in questions. This is a conundrum that I didn’t have to deal with when teaching Spanish and German to high school students in California and New Jersey prior to moving to Chile. With the exception of haben in German, […]
Reflections on the LABCI Conference in Santiago
Last week I spent three days at a teaching conference in Santiago, and it was a great time. This particular conference was organized by the Latin American British Cultural Institute, and it included people from all over South America, the States, Europe, and even Australia. It happens every other year a different Latin American country, […]
An Updated Testing Experience with TOEFL
In case you haven’t heard yet, the TOEFL test is changing starting August 1st 2019. The test is being shortened from 3.5 hours to 3 hours, and my guess is that this is being done to be seen as comparable to IELTS in terms of test length. I know that if I had the choice […]