Category: ELTWeekly Issue#16

ELTWeekly Issue#16 Contents

Click Here to DOWNLOAD ELTWeekly Issue#16 in PDF Format – Cool ELT resources – Research paper: Culture Influences on English Language Teaching – Book of the week: Becoming A Language Teacher – Worldwide ELT events Click Here to DOWNLOAD ELTWeekly Issue#16 in PDF Format – Worldwide ELT news – Expert article: Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16 Contents

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Cool ELT resources

English Teaching Resource Center The English Teaching Resource Center (ETRC) was created by the U.S. Embassy and “I. Creanga” State Pedagogical University in collaboration with the British Embassy to Moldova. It is a multi-media center created to help English teachers improve their knowledge of English, to assist them in developing their lessons and classroom teaching… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Cool ELT resources

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Research paper: Culture Influences on English Language Teaching

Culture Influences on English Language Teaching By Zhang, Xue-wei; Yan, Ying-jun Abstract It’s obvious that the teaching situation and teaching methods used in English Language Teaching (ELT) in China need to be changed to involve culture instead of language knowledge only. To further explain the importance of culture teaching, teachers need to know to what extent cultural… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Research paper: Culture Influences on English Language Teaching

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Book of the week: Becoming A Language Teacher

Becoming A Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching By Elaine K Horwitz Book Details   Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 1 edition (February 5, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0205430821 ISBN-13: 978-0205430826 Price: $52.00 Editorial Reviews Product Description Becoming a Language Teacher is a comprehensive guide to the knowledge and classroom skills teachers need to meet… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Book of the week: Becoming A Language Teacher

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events

IATEFL YL & LT SIG March 2009 This conference is jointly organised by the British Council and IATEFL’s Young Learner & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. Sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, it is for all teachers of English and focuses on three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching. The conference agenda… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news

The place of English language in India today In the mid-1980s, when I was studying journalism in the US, a question I was often asked was: “How do you speak English so well?” My reply was simple and honest. I would start by patiently explaining how I had studied English not just as a language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it

Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it By Michael Berman In every community, every family, every classroom, and every staffroom, there are relationship problems, most of which are swept under the carpet, and most of which inevitably resurface again, often when we are least expecting them to, to cause even greater problems… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it

ELTWeekly Issue #16, Word of the week: wherefore

wherefore • WAIR-for • adverb meaning:                  1 : for what reason or purpose : why                  2 : therefore. example: “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet) To know more about the word ‘wherefore’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Mar.15.2009