Word of the week: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic – VAK Video: English Language Teaching In Action – Disc 2: Productive Skills Resource of the week: Learnable.com (Take an online course. Or make your own.) Susan Ryan’s Tip: Frequently Mispronounced Consonant Advertisement: Station-e Language Lab Article: ‘The Status of English Language Teaching in Pakistan’ by Syed… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#88 Contents
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#88, Susan Ryan’s Tip: Frequently Mispronounced Consonant
One of the most frequently mispronounced consonant is the letter X. In spoken American English the letter X has two pronunciations. Here are the rules and a few examples. 1. When the letter X occurs before a stressed vowel it is pronounced like /gz/. Here are a few examples. The word exact sounds like egzact.… Continue reading #88, Susan Ryan’s Tip: Frequently Mispronounced Consonant
#88, Resource of the week: Learnable.com (Take an online course. Or make your own.)
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#88, Word of the week: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic – VAK
VAK, or Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic, refers to one model of learning styles. The VAK model is comprised of three different learning styles, or preferred ways of learning. In some accounts, another style, tactile, is included. Example Dunn and Dunn’s model of learning styles, which is frequently used in the American school system, is a… Continue reading #88, Word of the week: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic – VAK
#88, Article: ‘The Status of English Language Teaching in Pakistan’ by Syed Ali Waqas
In Pakistan with its 63 year’s history and a colonial past the role of English has been a controversial one. To quote Rahman, successive constitutions of 1956, 1962 and 1973 all articulated the desire to replace English by Urdu in all domains but for all practical purposes. Today English remains a second language in Pakistan.… Continue reading #88, Article: ‘The Status of English Language Teaching in Pakistan’ by Syed Ali Waqas
#88, Video: English Language Teaching In Action – Disc 2: Productive Skills
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#88, Research Paper: ‘The Daily Newspaper and the English Text books: A Study’ by Dr. Shree Deepa
Dr. Shree Deepa works with the University of Hyderabad. English Text books are indispensable entities in the language class room. Newspapers are mere ‘aids’ or additional decorative material. Text books are printed and published in different editions and remain in print for years. One edition of the text book lasts for a particular period of time… Continue reading #88, Research Paper: ‘The Daily Newspaper and the English Text books: A Study’ by Dr. Shree Deepa
#88, Research Paper: ‘What the Learners Don’t’ Learn, Why?: An Investigative Study of the Grammatical Errors of Hindi-medium ESL learners of Uttar Pradesh’ by Dr. Praggya M Singh
Dr.Praggya M. Singh works as an Associate Professor in English at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. English has been a subject of great instructional concern for educators in all sectors of education in India. The recent expansion of convent and English medium schools has become a reality. This is due to the lack of public attention to English taught… Continue reading #88, Research Paper: ‘What the Learners Don’t’ Learn, Why?: An Investigative Study of the Grammatical Errors of Hindi-medium ESL learners of Uttar Pradesh’ by Dr. Praggya M Singh