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How to use AI for ESL teaching?
As we all know, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more integrated with everyday technology, such as Siri, Alexa, and recently, Facebook's metaverse. Together with the global pandemic, the result has been institutions around the world resorting to online...

8 Ways to Improve Your Conversation Skills
Have you ever wondered how you can have strong conversation skills to communicate with others? We use conversation skills in various daily contexts, such as at school, college, work, shops, or restaurants. Having strong conversation skills is essential to...

Platform Updates to Sensay (April 2022)
Hello Sensay Super Teacher, You may or may not have noticed a few big changes to your Teacher Account...(launched just today!) Please check them out and let us know what you think. Here are the updates:Introducing "Sensay Lite" Student Report Type for Reading...

Top 4 “Ultimate” Teacher Tips for Sensay
These tips come straight from our ✨Super Teachers✨ who get the most value and time savings from Sensay. These teachers save tens of hours a week of manual work! Sensay helps them to... Save time and effort spent on one-on-one oral assessment in the classroom Reduce...

Multilingualism: A Life Skill
You may already know that being multilingual can help increase a person’s confidence - not by a little, but by a lot. Many children around the world have become increasingly bilingual, due to the many benefits. But it’s not always an easy journey. In many cases, they...

An English Teacher in Taiwan’s Review of Online Learning Tools
Since the pandemic hit, most offline activities have been moved online, including schools. It has been a struggle for both teachers and students to adapt to virtual learning. As an educator, I also encountered this problem. But...

Difference Between Accent and Pronunciation
Have you ever wondered about the difference between accent and pronunciation? In this short article, we'll talk about the distinction between the two. From a linguistic point of view, the term accent refers to only the phonetic aspects of a dialect (Rogers, 2013)....

What Learning to Be Fluent in Another Language Taught Me and Means to Me
Learning to be fluent in another language can be very rewarding. As a native Italian speaker who is also fluent in English and Mandarin, I will share my personal experience as a language learner. Lesson 1: Independence To me, being fluent in another language...

Is It Possible to Get Rid of Accents? Should We Even Try?
If you’re learning a new language and trying to change your current accent, so as to sound more “native”, see why you should switch your focus to pronunciation, instead. Opinions on language accents are diverging: some people think of foreign accents as something...

What is it Like Being a Multilingual Household?
Who has never come across a mixed family, wondering how it is like being a multilingual household? Living in an increasingly interconnected world, multilingual households are becoming more and more common. Let’s see the pros and cons of multilingual living in a...