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Cat Got Your Tongue? : Recent Research And Classroom Practices For Teaching Idioms To English Learners Around The World, Paul Mcpherron, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

In the aptly titled Cat Got Your Tongue? Recent Research and Classroom Practices for Teaching Idioms to English Learners Around the World, authors Paul McPherron and Patrick T. Randolph explore effective ways to address idioms, collocations, multiword phrases, and other types of formulaic language in the classroom. They present recent research on the pedagogy of teaching and learning idioms along with practical tools for teachers, including ready-to-use lesson plans and resource materials.

“Cat Got Your Tongue? welcomes the reader to a practical and relevant guide in the learning and teaching of idioms that aligns science with compassionate, responsive classroom teaching,” …

Realizing Transitions: Common Core, College, Career, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus, the great German psychologist, discovered that we forget up to 90% of what we learn within 30 days if we do not make a conscious attempt to retain the learned material. What is most troubling is that much of this information is actually forgotten just hours after the initial exposure. Ebbinghaus’s study has been reconfirmed with recent research in neuroscience (Kandel & Hawkins, 1992; Medina, 2009; Sousa, 2011). Applying these daunting numbers to our students’ retention of vocabulary, it is easy to understand why they forget a large percentage of the terms they study in their …

Exploring Creative Writing And Critical Thinking With Ells, Patrick T. Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

This is a short procedural/instructional article on how to teach what I call the “three-step short story” to English language learners (ELLs). The same method, however, can easily be used to teach native-speakers of English.