Proficient writers need to craft their messages, and this involves—among other elements, of course—employing sentence variety. Developing a piece of writing with a pleasing mix of sentence variety is challenging; try providing examples for your students with interesting subjects. This article uses zombies as an example. This activity allows you to see whether students can actually produce target forms and involves a series of short sentence-writing exercises. 

This article outlines major developments in English as an interntational language (EIL) and their implications for teacher competence and discusses the ideological challenges in integrating EIL in teacher education. It concludes with a detailed description of a three-step EIL-oriented pedagogy for TESOL teacher education courses and programs that aims to foster teachers’ linguistic self-respect, build their pedagogical competence for plurilingual teaching, and transform their classrooms. Download the full article here.