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Dorothy Zemach
Dorothy is an author, editor, teacher trainer, and educational consultant. If it involves words, language, or teaching, she's interested! Areas of specialty and interest include teaching writing, teaching reading, business English, academic English, testing, and humor. She's a frequent plenary speaker at international conferences and founder of Wayzgoose Press. Contact Dorothy through her personal website (http://dorothyzemach.com) or find her on Facebook, where she talks (mostly!) about learning, teaching, language, and travel.
Posts by Dorothy
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August 11, 2024
Engaging Sample CLIL Lesson Plans for the ESL/EFL Classroom
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... -
August 3, 2024
What Are the Benefits of CLIL in Bilingual Education?
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... -
August 2, 2024
What Is CLIL? The Global Trend in Bilingual Education Explained
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... -
January 20, 2022
What’s It Like to Teach English for the US Department of State? Voices from the Field
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... -
October 26, 2021
What Is the Current State of English Teaching in Afghanistan?
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.... -
September 17, 2021
Are Machine Translation Tools a Threat to English Teaching?
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... -
July 22, 2021
Going Viral – Can English Language Educators Monetize Their Teaching Through YouTube?
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... -
May 20, 2021
Teaching English With TikTok? How Social Media Is Making Microlearning Big Business
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...