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Articles for ESL/EFL Teachers by Hall Houston

Over the past several years, I have been busy writing articles on teaching ESL. Here are links to my writings.

Off the Beaten Path columns - Humanising Language Teaching webzine

6 Novel Ways to Introduce a Topic Six Things Blog

10 Ways to Get Discussions Going

10 Activities for Using Post-It Notes

10 Activities for Using Song Lyrics

10 Quick Ways to Use a Sentence

75 ESL Teaching Ideas (The Internet TESL Journal)

Activities for Boosting Creativity (Humanising Language Teaching)

A Book Review of Compelling Conversations (English Teaching Professional)

A Book Review of Storybuilding (TESL-EJ)

A Book Review of Teaching Other Subjects Through English (TESL-EJ)

A Book Review of Teaching Unplugged (ELT Weekly)

A Book Review of Working With Images (English Teaching Professional)

Brainstorming (English Teaching Professional)

A Brainstorming Activity for ESL/EFL Students (The Internet TESL Journal)

Brainstorming Activities for Group Discussion (Humanising Language Teaching)

Breathing Life into Checking Answers (Developing Teachers)

Cannibalizing Warmers (One Stop English)

Cliffhanger Activities (Modern English Teacher)

A Creative Approach to Lesson Planning (ELT Weekly)

Enhancing English Learning Through Brainstorming (Presentation and Paper - Fourth International Conference on English Education and Drama at Tainan University of Technology)

Getting Published Online (ESL Magazine)

Memory Skills for the Language Classroom (Language Magazine)

Reforming Education (One Stop English)

Six Creativity Activities (Humanising Language Teaching)

Teaching Critical Thinking in ESL Classes (ESL Magazine)

Using Creativity as a Catalyst: Boosting Creative Skills in the ESL Classroom (ESL Magazine)

Warming Up to Creativity: Starting Points (Developing Teachers)