Rike Neville

Your source for materials designed to target and remediate specific language/skill gaps! Teachers have also successfully implemented these adult ESL resources in native English-speaking mainstream classes. ESL is in my blood. My mother arrived in the United States at age 18 with almost no English skills and had me at 20, so I grew up in an ESL home. She learned English from TV and then taught it to me. No one could have ever guessed I'd eventually earn a master's in TESL! I taught ESL/EFL students in the private sector for almost 20 years in the United States and South Korea. Living in South Korea certainly gave me a lot of insight into what it's like to be fully immersed in a foreign language. I drew upon that while teaching and still draw upon it now with the resources I create. I taught adult international students in Intensive English Programs in the USA, and I make my resources with those students in mind. I try to fill in the gaps between what my students and I had available and what we needed. Many of my students are still in my resources, some by name and some only by inside stories and jokes. They have also been invaluable as resources--I often received constructive feedback when trying out a new resource on them. I began my TpT store in 2015 with grammar guides I made initially to help me explain concepts to my students. They found them on my desk and requested copies, as did students who were NOT in my classes. Then, one day, the director of the school where I was working at the time remarked that my grammar guides were more useful than the ones in the books we were using, and that's what encouraged me to start a store.