– Quote of the Week – Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Introduction – Macmillan Interactive Webinars – Season 2 – Research Paper: Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition – Article: Sexism in Linguistics – Article: Social Networking Sites for Teaching English, Part-1 – Free eBook: Global Citizenship in the English Language Classroom – ELT Resource of the Week: CLIL – Worldwide ELT… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33 Contents
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ELTWeekly Issue#33, Article: Social Networking Sites for Teaching English, Part-1
Social Networking Sites for Teaching English, Part-1 by Tarun Patel, Faculty of Technology – CHARUSAT, co-founder of ELTWeekly According to a British Council research, 69% of learners around the world learnt most effectively when socializing informally. Facebook, a popular social networking site ha more than 60 million active users. This site had an average of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Article: Social Networking Sites for Teaching English, Part-1
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Worldwide ELT Events
Making Multimedia work in the Digital Lab, University of Ulster, York Street, Belfast, September 18 Building on the success of our previous symposia in London (2007) and Nottingham (2008), the Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning is hosting a third symposium on the use of digital labs to be held in Belfast on Friday 18th… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Worldwide ELT Events
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Quote of the Week
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. – Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Free eBook: Global Citizenship in the English Language Classroom
This 54-page booklet comprises a collection of papers with contributions from leading researchers on global citizenship in language education in several corners of the globe. It provides not only sound theoretical frameworks for investigation but also practical findings for application in diverse segments of ELT, ranging from university environments to public schools and from EFL… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Free eBook: Global Citizenship in the English Language Classroom
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Introduction
“??Shaping the Way We Teach English, Successful Practices Around the World” materials are designed for English as a Foreign Language educators who share the following two goals: 1. Building an academic or “pedagogical”? foundation; and, 2. Improving classroom practices. If you have these same goals, then these materials are for you! An innovative offering from the Office… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Introduction
ELTWeekly Issue#33, ELT Resource of the Week: CLIL
CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction. Both methods result in the simultaneous learning of content… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, ELT Resource of the Week: CLIL
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Macmillan Interactive Webinars – Season 2
Watch live talks from some of the biggest names in English language teaching, right in your web browser. All webinars are free to join – all you require is an internet connection and a computer. (Please note: Registration for the webinars series is separate from the Macmillan Education resources email service. You will need to register to view the webinars… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Macmillan Interactive Webinars – Season 2
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Article: Sexism in Linguistics
Sexism in Linguistics by Murali Vemula (Ph.D), Research Scholar, Kakatiya University, Warangal.A.P. Introduction It is difficult to separate linguistic features that are sexist from linguistic features that help to maintain sexual stereotypes. For example, the choice of ‘he’ as the sex-indefinite pronoun is sexist because it excludes women (femininity) but it also perpetuates the idea that women are… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Article: Sexism in Linguistics
ELTWeekly Issue#33, Research Paper: Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition
Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition by Professor: Dr. Birjandi and M-Hashamdar, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Branch Abstract The present paper is intended to search for individual differences in first language acquisition. It identifies differences in social, cognitive, cultural, and linguistic dimensions. What the researcher has found out so far is that bulk of research… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#33, Research Paper: Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition