Category: ELT Newsletter

ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 28, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching Writing or Editing Writing? (Edutopia) #IATEFL – Why invest in extensive reading? (OUP ELT Blog) Vocabulary gap-fills: from testing _____ teaching (OUP ELT Blog) Life Skills for Teachers: Creativity (Video) Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Supporting Spelling: strategies for helping weaker spellers’, March 29 Teaching… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7

Teaching Writing or Editing Writing? (Edutopia)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Editing student writing typically takes a few minutes and a red pen. Teaching writing requires hard work, and even though many teachers assign writing, few actually teach the art of writing. The writing process is time consuming and often messy, so it’s no wonder… Continue reading Teaching Writing or Editing Writing? (Edutopia)

Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers (Edutopia)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Among all the links and downloads out there, it can be hard for teachers to know which ones work best. Google has made it easier by creating Google for Educators, which compiles some of the search engine’s most useful features in one place. Whether… Continue reading Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers (Edutopia)

Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Whether you teach pre-school, young learners, teens or adults, the ability to make your classroom a place where creativity thrives is a crucial factor in motivating and engaging learners. This talk explores seven ways to promote creativity and illustrates each one with a range… Continue reading Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching talk as performance requires a different teaching strategy. Jones (1996:17) comments that: Initially, talk as performance needs to be prepared for and scaffolded in much the same way as written text, and many of the teaching strategies used to make understandings of written… Continue reading Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)

Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Supporting Spelling: strategies for helping weaker spellers’, March 29

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] About webinar For some students English spelling is a nightmare! Especially if their own language uses a different writing system. How can teachers help those learners see that English spelling is something they can master and teach them some strategies for improving their spelling?… Continue reading Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Supporting Spelling: strategies for helping weaker spellers’, March 29

Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Integrating video in our secondary classrooms’, March 17

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] About webinar Short video clips have become a huge part of our day-to-day communication on social media, from Facebook to Whatsapp. Teens and pre-teens are leading the trend in using video as a medium to communicate and express themselves. In this webinar we’ll be… Continue reading Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Integrating video in our secondary classrooms’, March 17

Vocabulary gap-fills: from testing _____ teaching (OUP ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The potential of gap-fills When it comes to vocabulary learning, gap-fills are everywhere. But do they have a place in communicative language learning? They are often criticized for being boring and for promoting only a passive knowledge of words. It is not unreasonable to… Continue reading Vocabulary gap-fills: from testing _____ teaching (OUP ELT Blog)

#IATEFL – Why invest in extensive reading? (OUP ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] What is extensive reading and how can it transform learning? The short answer is reading by choice and for pleasure but what does this mean in practice? The two comments above, reflecting on last year’s participation in OUP Italy’s Read On! class library project,… Continue reading #IATEFL – Why invest in extensive reading? (OUP ELT Blog)