ESL Blog

Today, I found a blog for ESL students and teachers that I think is great. It is called "Ron's ESL Blogs" and the address is: http://rong-chang.com/blogs/. The teacher, Ron, posts topics about English language learning issues for students to discuss. I really liked reading the posts on the topic of how American culture is different from the students' cultures. It gives everyone insight into other cultures, and it gives students a chance to practice their writing skills when they make posts. Ron also posts tips on teaching ESL. For example, one of his tips is to teach sentences using the "subject+predicate" format instead of "subject+verb" because he finds his students are less confused this way. It is less confusing because "subject+predicate" incorporates other parts of speech (verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.) and "subject+verb" only talks about subjects and verbs. There can be more to a sentence than just a subject and verb.