ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#29 | July 16, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Book of the week: Rainbow Video: Teacher+Learner=Turner Cambridge ELT Interview with Michael Handford eBook of the week: Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding Video: Krashen and language acquisition Research Paper: ‘Influence of Culture in ESL Learning in Jaffna, Sri Lanka’ by Vairamuthu Suntharesan David… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 29
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ELTWeekly Issue#58
Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons Video: Error Correction in Speaking – The Fun Way News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers) Article: Developing Communication Skills Worldwide ELT Events… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#58
Worldwide ELT Events
JERUSALEM: ETAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, JULY 13-15 UNITY AND DIVERSITY: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, CUBA, JUNE 28-JULY 1 INGED ELT CONFERENCE, TURKEY, OCTOBER 2010 THE TEACHER TRAINER JOURNAL ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE, ENGLAND, AUGUST 2011 THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL NILETESOL/AUC CONFERENCE, EGYPT, FEBRUARY 1-3, 2011
#58, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes
I consider the greatest problem facing me as a language teacher is knowing how to motivate my students: how to get them past the hurdle of seeing learning English as just another academic subject, to regarding it as developing a communication tool that will be useful for them throughout their lives. Over the last years… Continue reading #58, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes
#58, Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons
As we all know, audio and video materials enhance the effectiveness of the contents we deliver. MyPodcast is a free service that enables people create and post their audio contents online. Here is the 2-step way to create and publish your audio contents: Recording MyPodcast provides a free software designed to work with our website,… Continue reading #58, Tip of the week: Use MyPodcast.com to Create and Post your A-Lessons
#58, News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China
NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Beijing, China, 05/14/2010 – Pearson Longman, Pearson Language Tests and Wall Street English are honoured. Pearson Longman, Pearson Language Tests and Wall Street English were among the 50 organisations selected as the “most influential institutions in the English Language Teaching industry in China.” At an award ceremony held in Beijing on May 13,… Continue reading #58, News: Pearson Companies Win English-Language Teaching Awards in China
#58, Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers)
Creative writing normally refers to the production of texts which have an aesthetic rather than a purely informative, instrumental or pragmatic purpose. Most often, such texts take the form of poems or stories, though they are not confined to these genres. (Letters, journal entries, blogs, essays, travelogues, etc. can also be more or less creative.)… Continue reading #58, Article: Creative writing for language learners (and teachers)
#58, Article: Developing Communication Skills
Developing Communication Skills by Z. N. Patil, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad & Yeasmin Sultana, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Assam University, Silchar Life is a process of communication. Our activities and relationships depend on our ability to connect and communicate. A large part of our private and professional life is a series of communication… Continue reading #58, Article: Developing Communication Skills
#58, Video: Error Correction in Speaking – The Fun Way
In this video that features teaching tips for teenagers, Herbert Puchta looks at fun ways of correcting students’ mistakes.