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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Welcome to my journal!

This is actually a new journal space for me, as I was posting at the Inspiration Lane site for the past three months. I have not yet figured out how to transfer all those posts here, so perhaps I will start anew, and select some past posts to share when time permits. If you'd like to comment, feel free to post here in my journal in the "comments" section.

Susan Alyn aka "summer," Age 3, in her yellow dress. NY, NY

Susan Alyn, M.A., also known as "summer," is an ESOL certified teacher in Florida, USA, and the creator and editor of Inspiration Lane.

3 comments:

summer said...

Hello and welcome, to all the readers of
Humanising Language Teaching! I really appreciate that you are interested in seeing my site, after reading my auto-review in the May 2007 issue here.

My journal in this space has been quite long at times, and I am the midst of a lot of updating and changes, so kindly excuse my lack of entries at this moment!

If you have a particular question about something you see here, feel free to ask, and I will answer promptly.

Thanks again for your interest. I hope you come back again soon, when I have more posts here. It's been a fascinating experience creating this magazine, believe me!

:)

M.Y. said...

Thanks for your message.

summer said...

Thanks m.y. - I wrote a new post, above, for your students! :)

Blogs I Like Reading from ESL, ESOL and EFL Teachers Around the World

  • eflgeek.com - a Canadian EFL teacher in Korea. A really wonderful blog format here, one that I wish was available to all teachers everywhere. He, too, allowed me to post a link to my site on his site. Thanks, eflgeek!
  • esol4u.blogspot.com -- by Nancy Meredith, an American teacher at a community college in Texas. This is a blog Nancy actually uses with her class, though sometimes she posts academic info for other teachers, and shares a great link. (I am still hoping to eventually feature a video Nancy was kind enough to email me of a class project!) Thanks, Nancy!
  • e-poche.net -- from Aaron Campbell, EFL teacher in Japan. An interesting site, and his master's thesis is posted. His site gets a lot of hits (many of which then find their way to my site). I think he only posts what he approves - and he allowed me to post a link to my site. So, thank you, Aaron!
  • Neil Whitfield.wordpress.com -- a retired educator in Australia. Provides a wide variety of useful ESL links, and he gave me a nice review, now posted on my site. Thank you, Neil!
  • In addition: There is a woman ESOL tutor who gives advice to people teaching or learning English, and I have to find her blog; it's really full of relevant ESOL tips and info.

A Celebration - Updated November 2008

A Celebration - Updated November 2008


As of March 2008, Inspiration Lane has been online for one year now. I took some time off to celebrate, but decided to return here earlier than I planned, to encourage you, the ESOL. ESL or EFL teacher, to reflect and express yourself as a writer.

Consequently, in the coming months, I hope you, too, will write an essay! Maybe you want to write about teaching English as a Second Language (or teaching English as a Foreign Language) for posting here, with the goal of helping other teachers better reach their students.

You are welcome to email me your queries and submissions, by clicking here.

If you have already contacted me, and hope to see your work posted here soon, just know: I will indeed get back to you.

Thank you for visiting the site, and wishing me a very happy birthday! Someday I hope to be reading your essays! :)