Dorothy Zemach, Author at BridgeUniverse - TEFL Blog, News, Tips & Resources https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/author/dorothy-zemach/ Your go-to site for TEFL news, resources, and more. Download free ebooks and infographics to save for later and catch up on the latest teaching tips and trends written by our experts. Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:36:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-fav-32x32.png Dorothy Zemach, Author at BridgeUniverse - TEFL Blog, News, Tips & Resources https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/author/dorothy-zemach/ 32 32 Engaging Sample CLIL Lesson Plans for the ESL/EFL Classroom https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/clil-lesson-plans/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/clil-lesson-plans/#respond Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:27:36 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=20146 The good news about formulating a strong lesson plan for a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) class is that it will contain many of the same features of a […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/clil-lesson-plans/feed/ 0 What Are the Benefits of CLIL in Bilingual Education? https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/benefits-of-clil/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/benefits-of-clil/#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:51:20 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=15031 If you’re interested in bilingual education, you’ve doubtless already encountered the term CLIL — Content and Language Integrated Learning. The CLIL approach involves learning about another subject (the “content”) while […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/benefits-of-clil/feed/ 0 What Is CLIL? The Global Trend in Bilingual Education Explained https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-clil/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-clil/#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:39:05 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=14399 Bilingual education isn’t just for bilingual communities. Thanks to research that shows learning a second language has benefits for just about everyone, schools all over the world are looking for […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-clil/feed/ 0 What’s It Like to Teach English for the US Department of State? Voices from the Field https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/whats-it-like-to-teach-english-for-the-us-department-of-state-voices-from-the-field/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/whats-it-like-to-teach-english-for-the-us-department-of-state-voices-from-the-field/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:39:11 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=17437 The purview of the United States Department of State, more commonly referred to as the State Department, is vast. Broadly responsible for international relations and foreign diplomacy, this executive department […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/whats-it-like-to-teach-english-for-the-us-department-of-state-voices-from-the-field/feed/ 0 What Is the Current State of English Teaching in Afghanistan? https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-the-current-state-of-english-teaching-in-afghanistan/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-the-current-state-of-english-teaching-in-afghanistan/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:59:56 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=16459 Freshta Noori was 11 years old when she started studying English in the fourth grade. She was 19 when she began teaching English while simultaneously working on her teaching certification. […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/what-is-the-current-state-of-english-teaching-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Are Machine Translation Tools a Threat to English Teaching? https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/are-machine-translation-tools-a-threat-to-english-teaching/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/are-machine-translation-tools-a-threat-to-english-teaching/#respond Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:40:49 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=15713 If you have long passages, DeepL does come up with language that is more natural overall. But DeepL often mistranslates words and shorter phrases.  When Google Translate first launched in […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/are-machine-translation-tools-a-threat-to-english-teaching/feed/ 0 Going Viral – Can English Language Educators Monetize Their Teaching Through YouTube? https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/going-viral-can-english-language-educators-monetize-their-teaching-through-youtube/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/going-viral-can-english-language-educators-monetize-their-teaching-through-youtube/#respond Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:06:00 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=14640 Last month, BridgeUniverse explored the ways English language teachers and learners are using Instagram and TikTok. In this article, we’ll continue looking at English teaching outside the classroom by profiling […]

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]]> https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/going-viral-can-english-language-educators-monetize-their-teaching-through-youtube/feed/ 0 Teaching English With TikTok? How Social Media Is Making Microlearning Big Business https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/teaching-english-with-tiktok-social-media-making-microlearning-big-business/ https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/teaching-english-with-tiktok-social-media-making-microlearning-big-business/#respond Thu, 20 May 2021 16:28:48 +0000 https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/?p=13895 Microlearning — instruction delivered in short, bite-sized chunks — has become increasingly popular in the corporate world for in-service training. Although the term was coined back in 1963 by Hector […]

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