TESOL Connections Mobile

3 Activities Using Authentic Media to Build Student Fluency

Explicit instruction targeting fluency helps students speak more easily and automatically. Try these activities using authentic media with your multilingual learners of English.

Family Engagement Integrating Language and Science

by May H. Lee, Jennifer L. Cody, and Megan E. Lynch

It's important not only to involve families of English learners in their education, but to engage them in collaborative creation that supports and validates.

Teaching Grammar: Learning Prepositions With Corpora

by Anastasiia Kryzhanivska

Use this grammar activity to encourage your multilingual learners of English to analyze language in use while providing opportunities to practice their analytical skills.

Quick Tip: 6 Ways to Use MOOCs to Enhance Your Teaching

by Claire Lee

MOOCs, massive open online courses, are free (or low fee) online courses that are open to anyone to join. How can we capitalize on the wealth of knowledge freely available and use these courses to enhance our teaching? Here are six ways to use MOOCs for teaching and for professional development—for all English language teachers at all levels.

TESOL Board Connect: Recovery, Discovery, and Moving Forward

by Joyce Kling

TESOL President Joyce Kling (2022–2023) discusses the strategic priorities of the association and reflects on her own experiences as a volunteer leader. She reconnects with her professional past, sharing how the charge of one of her earliest leadership roles in TESOL International Association still resonates today, and how some calls to action just don't fade.

Call for Authors: TESOL is partnering with Microsoft to create support guides for a variety of their online products. We are seeking English language educators who have direct experience using these products with learners to create the first support guide. Submit your expression of interest by 15 March.

Last Chance for Advance Registration Rate for TESOL 2023: Connect with colleagues worldwide at the 2023 TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo—the largest ELT learning and networking event. Hosted in Portland, Oregon, USA, 21–24 March and virtually 3–4 April 2023. Register by 1 March to save.

2023 TESOL Teacher of the Year: TESOL International Association (TESOL) and National Geographic Learning are pleased to announce Drew S. Fagan as the recipient of the 2023 TESOL Teacher of the Year Award.

TESOL Statement: TESOL International Association statement on the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.

James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL: Longtime TESOL International Association member and Past President Dudley Reynolds has been named the recipient of the 2023 James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL.

Article: Beyond Checking Boxes: Advancing DEI in International Education (International Educator)

Blog: Top 5 EdTech Trends for 2023 (Cambridge University Press)

Blog: 4 Ways to Use AI to Build Laser-Focused Custom Content for Your Students (TESOL Blog)

Article: The English Learner Population Is Growing. Is Teacher Training Keeping Pace? (Education Week)

Article: 5 Ways to Ensure Clarity for ELLs (Edutopia)

2023-2024 FSE TEFL/EMI Advisor Scholarship; Fulbright Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwain

Clinical Professor (Open Rank) of Teaching and Learning in TESOL; Director, MA in TESOL Program; NYU Shanghai, China

Lecturer, English as a Second Language; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

Want to post your open positions to Job Link? Click here.

To browse all of TESOL's job postings, check out the TESOL Career Center.

21–24 March and 3–4 April 2023
TESOL 2023 International Convention & English Language Expo

27 March–23 April 2023
Separating Difference From Disability With Students Learning EAL

11–27 April 2023
School-Wide English Learning (SWEL) Workshops

17 April–21 May 2023
ELT Leadership Management Certificate Program

10 May–20 June 2023
Training for Trainers

TESOL
Worldwide Calendar of Events
Find conferences and events related to the field of English language education