20 ESL Teaching Tips

The helpful ESL Teaching Tips by Liz Regan on this page are written in plain, jargon-free English. They'll be of particular help to new teachers, and experienced teachers may find them useful as refreshers. They are also referenced in Topic-based Worksheets. These teaching tips are in printer-friendly PDF format but you can also view these same ESL Teaching Tips as html.

Teaching Tip 1: Pairwork/Groupwork

Teaching Tip 2: Reading Aloud

Teaching Tip 3: Checking Understanding

Teaching Tip 4: Pronunciation

Teaching Tip 5: Speaking to Other Students in English

Teaching Tip 6: Guessing Answers

Teaching Tip 7: Stopping an Activity

Teaching Tip 8: Feedback

Teaching Tip 9: Dealing with Vocabulary Queries

Teaching Tip 10: Monitoring

Teaching Tip 11: Error Correction

Teaching Tip 12: Eliciting

Teaching Tip 13: Checking Together

Teaching Tip 14: Reading before Writing

Teaching Tip 15: Brainstorming

Teaching Tip 16: Personalising

Teaching Tip 17: Translating

Teaching Tip 18: Pacing

Teaching Tip 19: Concept Checking

Teaching Tip 20: Using Dictionaries