Patrick T Randolph

MinneTESOL Journal, (2016), Vol. 32(Issue 1) Ebbinghaus discovered that students forget up to 90 percent of what they learn within a 30-day period. The author argues that implementing the Head-to-Toe Method of Associations for Vocabulary Acquisition is a solution to this age-old problem. Introduction: The Core Problems and One…

MinneTESOL Journal, (2014), Vol. 30(Issue 1) The secret to successful paraphrasing lies in how it is taught and the material used to help make the learning experience a positive and productive one. Poetry offers promise. Retelling a story your grandmother told you decades ago seems relatively effortless because of its emotional…

Patrick T. Randolph has taught English language learners for the past 20 years, specializing in creative and academic writing, speech, and debate. His research interests include applying findings in neuroscience to the language classroom. Patrick lives with his soul-inspiring wife, Gamze; his cheerfully trilingual daughter, Aylene; and comical-cat, Gable, in the Midwest. His book, co-authored with Paul McPherron, Cat Got Your Tongue? Recent research and classroom practices for teaching idioms to English learners around the world, has been a bestseller for TESOL Press.

Author: Patrick T Randolph

Introducing Randolph’s Head-to-Toe Method of Associations for Vocabulary Acquisition to Break the Ebbinghaus Curse

Paraphrasing Through Poetry

Patrick T Randolph