[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | May 4, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Learning Language Functions through Collaborative Video Creation: A Case in ESL context Dr. Kiran I. Chauhan Assistant Professor in English, Dr. S. & S.S. Ghandhy Engineering College, Surat, Gujarat. Abstract Using technology in language classroom has been a matter of interest for language… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Learning Language Functions through Collaborative Video Creation: A Case in ESL context’ by Kiran Chauhan
Category: ELT Articles and Research Papers
Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 1
Last year, for my Masters in Education at the University of Cambridge, I carried out a research project exploring the reading strategies that children with English as an Additional Language (EAL), and monolingual children with English as a first language, use in a paired reading task. Motivating my research was a recent report I read,… Continue reading Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 1
Article: Turning the Community Into a Classroom
When city planners in Portland, Oregon, were looking for ideas to make public spaces more inviting to youths across the region, they turned right to the source. Tyler White, a junior at De La Salle North Catholic High School, teamed up with a diverse group of students from several area schools to research and develop… Continue reading Article: Turning the Community Into a Classroom
Article: 6 Simple Ideas to Motivate Your Students using Linked Language Learning
These days, I live and work in Ireland. Near my home, is Newgrange – a huge mound of rock and earth that’s over 5,000 years old. At dawn, on the shortest day of the year, everyone gathers to see the sun’s first light shine along a passage and light up a chamber in the mound.… Continue reading Article: 6 Simple Ideas to Motivate Your Students using Linked Language Learning
Article: Extensive Reading and Language Learning
Extensive reading is based on the well-established premise that we learn to read by reading. This is true for learning to read our first language as well as foreign languages. In teaching foreign language reading, an extensive reading approach allows students to read, read, and read some more. When EFL students read extensively, they become… Continue reading Article: Extensive Reading and Language Learning
Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 2
This article follows a previous article, in which I introduced the research project I carried out as part of my Master’s degree in research in second language education. In my study, I explored the scaffolding strategies that children with English as an Additional Language (EAL), and monolingual children with English as a first language, use… Continue reading Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 2
Research Paper: ‘The Impact of Use of English Outside the Classroom by Mandarin and Tamil ESL Learners in Their Accuracy with the Simple Past Tense’ by Mike Tiittanen
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 13 | July 25, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] This study examined whether the self-reported use of English outside school by Mandarin-speaking and Tamil-speaking ESL learners played a role in the accuracy of the oral use of the simple past tense. The participants were primarily in their thirties and were mostly students… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Impact of Use of English Outside the Classroom by Mandarin and Tamil ESL Learners in Their Accuracy with the Simple Past Tense’ by Mike Tiittanen
Research Paper: ‘The Evolution of an Online Writing Test Standardisation in a Pre-service Communications Skills Course for Teachers in Singapore’ by Mary Ellis, Anitha Devi Pillai and Chan Hsiao-yun
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 13 | July 25, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The National Institute of Education (NIE) is the provider of teacher education in Singapore and is an institution within the Nanyang Technological University; NIE is simultaneously accountable to the Ministry of Education in Singapore. A Communication Skills for Teachers course (CST) was introduced… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Evolution of an Online Writing Test Standardisation in a Pre-service Communications Skills Course for Teachers in Singapore’ by Mary Ellis, Anitha Devi Pillai and Chan Hsiao-yun
Online video genres and student creation (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 5 | February 8, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] It is important to consider what’s new with video – more specifically, how online video has blurred traditional divisions and created new genres. As well as traditional genres such as romance, comedy or biography, we now need to consider new genres such as video… Continue reading Online video genres and student creation (Cambridge Conversations)
Top 10 Tools for Expression in the EFL Classroom (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 5 | February 8, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Focusing on pronunciation and writing skills, equip your class with the techniques and skills to make telling their stories in English less of a challenge. ‘The Writing Paradox’ – Gareth Davies explores a quick writing exercise to overcome the common hurdle – ‘My students… Continue reading Top 10 Tools for Expression in the EFL Classroom (OUP ELT Blog)