“IT MIGHT seem like advances in language translation technology will soon cancel out the need for kids to learn foreign languages, but there are no signs that human translators will be out of a job just yet. The field of machine translation (MT) has been around for years but it has improved significantly over the… Continue reading #55, News: Word getting out about translation
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#55, Article: Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom
“Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir’ and when to ‘settle’ children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other.… Continue reading #55, Article: Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom
#55, Research Article: ‘Towards Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Language Teaching’ by Saeid Najafi Sarem & Babak Qasemi
There have been reformulations of the different components of knowledge that underlie Canale and Swain’s influential model of communicative competent, the model, in its slightly modified form by Canale (1983), still forms the conventional framework for curriculum design and classroom practice associated with communicative language teaching many educational contexts. The notion of communicative competence described… Continue reading #55, Research Article: ‘Towards Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Language Teaching’ by Saeid Najafi Sarem & Babak Qasemi
#55, Article: ‘Factors and Problems of Teaching English as Second Language at Rural Areas’ by Nukesh Yellapu
Factors and Problems of Teaching English as Second Language at Rural Areas for +1 Students in Andhra Pradesh Nukesh Yellapu, M.A.,B.Ed. With the long and varied experience of teaching English to young students in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh at +1 level, the columnist would like to share some of the vengeances and their probable… Continue reading #55, Article: ‘Factors and Problems of Teaching English as Second Language at Rural Areas’ by Nukesh Yellapu
#55, Video: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers … for English Language Learners
Improving Recruitment, Development & Retention Through Effective Pedagogy – Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Integrate Inquiry Science with Language and Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners: An Experimental Study Trish Stoddart – University of California, Santa Cruz Marco Bravo – Santa Clara University Jorge Solis – University of California, Berkeley This presentation describes the findings of… Continue reading #55, Video: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers … for English Language Learners
ELTWeekly Issue#54 Contents
Video: The Future of the English Language Article: Using the Board News: Teaching a Foreign Language? Best Teach in the Accent of the Listener Worldwide ELT Events Research Paper: ‘Plain Levels of Strategy in Vocabulary Studies’ by A. Ramesh Babu Research Paper: ‘The Effect of Monolingual, Bilingual, and Bilingualized Dictionaries on Vocabulary Comprehension and Production’… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#54 Contents
#54, Article: Using the Board
Do you have a blackboard, a whiteboard or an IWB? Whatever type of board you have in your classroom it is important to be organised and to put yourself in your students’ shoes for a moment. What do they see when they look at your board? In this article we will consider ways of getting… Continue reading #54, Article: Using the Board
#54, News: Teaching a Foreign Language? Best Teach in the Accent of the Listener
ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2010) — Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not in the ‘original’ accent of that language, shows a new study from the University of Haifa. The study was published in theJournal of Psycholinguistic Research. Many adult schools teaching second languages insist… Continue reading #54, News: Teaching a Foreign Language? Best Teach in the Accent of the Listener
#54, Worldwide ELT Events
BELGRADE: ELTA IATEFL CONFERENCE MAY 2010 JERUSALEM: ETAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE July 2010 UNITY AND DIVERSITY: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE CUBA, June-July 2010 EFL AND ART: LEARNING WITH ALL OUR SENSES INGED ELT CONFERENCE October 2010
#54, Research Paper: ‘Plain Levels of Strategy in Vocabulary Studies’ by A. Ramesh Babu
Abstract: To language acquisition, learner should take vocabulary as the first step. When the students do not find themselves comfortable with L2, language learning can be made interactive and interesting with the introduction of appropriate vocabulary exercises. The present approach to the teaching of vocabulary in schools and colleges is far from satisfactory. In teaching and… Continue reading #54, Research Paper: ‘Plain Levels of Strategy in Vocabulary Studies’ by A. Ramesh Babu