The article gives a brief review on how to improve students' speaking skills via modeling dialogues in FL class. This study can be considered the continuation of the research undertaken by the authors in 2018, in which the authors put forward the hypothesis that students' speaking skills improve provided their ability to match speech patterns to…

Focuses on using the community as an environment in which to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) in a socially responsive way. The article points out that many ESL classes exist for social reasons and that these reasons need to be foregrounded for effective language instruction to proceed. The article also discusses the role played by course…

Identifies 10 principles that English-as-a-Second-or-Other-Language teachers need to address in collaboration with content area teachers. For each principle, a concern is described, a response is outlined, and a relevant example is provided. (14 references) (Author/CK)