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#59, Research Paper: Using Cartoons to Help Students Learn English

Using Cartoons to Help Students Learn English by Tarun Patel, Asst. Professor, Department of Communication Skills, CHARUSAT Abstract With the recent development of EFL/ESL studies, researchers are using diverse directions to analyze the language acquisition of the young learners (YL) and are examining more day-to-day issues. What is widely accepted in this regard is that kids are… Continue reading #59, Research Paper: Using Cartoons to Help Students Learn English

ELTWeekly Issue#58

Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons Video: Error Correction in Speaking – The Fun Way News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers) Article: Developing Communication Skills Worldwide ELT Events… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#58

#58, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes

I consider the greatest problem facing me as a language teacher is knowing how to motivate my students: how to get them past the hurdle of seeing learning English as just another academic subject, to regarding it as developing a communication tool that will be useful for them throughout their lives. Over the last years… Continue reading #58, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes

#58, Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons

As we all know, audio and video materials enhance the effectiveness of the contents we deliver. MyPodcast is a free service that enables people create and post their audio contents online. Here is the 2-step way to create and publish your audio contents: Recording MyPodcast provides a free software designed to work with our website,… Continue reading #58, Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons

#58, News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China

NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Beijing, China, 05/14/2010 – Pearson Longman, Pearson Language Tests and Wall Street English are honoured. Pearson Longman, Pearson Language Tests and Wall Street English were among the 50 organisations selected as the “most influential institutions in the English Language Teaching industry in China.” At an award ceremony held in Beijing on May 13,… Continue reading #58, News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China

#58, Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers)

Creative writing normally refers to the production of texts which have an aesthetic rather than a purely informative, instrumental or pragmatic purpose. Most often, such texts take the form of poems or stories, though they are not confined to these genres. (Letters, journal entries, blogs, essays, travelogues, etc. can also be more or less creative.)… Continue reading #58, Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers)

#58, Article: Developing Communication Skills

Developing Communication Skills by Z. N. Patil, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad & Yeasmin Sultana, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Assam University, Silchar Life is a process of communication. Our activities and relationships depend on our ability to connect and communicate. A large part of our private and professional life is a series of communication… Continue reading #58, Article: Developing Communication Skills