ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Research Paper: Lights, Camera, Learning! Video: Co-Teaching & Other Collaborative Projects for English Language Learners Article: Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities Research Paper: Investigating Instructional Strategies for Using Social Media in Formal and Informal Learning Video: Learner Language: Tools for Teachers Article: Get lit up:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 35
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Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Lights, Camera, Learning!
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The shift from analog to digital video transformed the system from a unidirectional analog broadcast to a two-way conversation, resulting in the birth of participatory media. Digital video offers new opportunities for teaching science, social studies, mathematics, and English language arts. The professional education associations… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Lights, Camera, Learning!
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Co-Teaching & Other Collaborative Projects for English Language Learners
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, editors and Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, contributor, of the recently published book Co-Teaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations, discuss local and international collaborative teaching projects designed to help English language learners. The volume examines… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Co-Teaching & Other Collaborative Projects for English Language Learners
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Article: Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The BBC TeachingEnglish team has published an article titled “Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities”. BBC TeachingEnglish team team says, “Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis. In my work as a teacher trainer… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Article: Integrating pronunciation into classroom activities
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Investigating Instructional Strategies for Using Social Media in Formal and Informal Learning
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Despite the high popularity of personal use of online social media, a low percentage of students and instructors use them for educational purposes. This qualitative study explores the use of social media among faculty in the discipline of public administration in the United States. Eight… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Investigating Instructional Strategies for Using Social Media in Formal and Informal Learning
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Learner Language: Tools for Teachers
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The Communicative Approach is so well-established, it’s more or less the default methodology for second language teaching. But where did it come from? How has it evolved? Where does it work? What are its strengths and its weaknesses? In this wide-ranging conversation, in which Scott… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Learner Language: Tools for Teachers
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Article: Get lit up: literature as a teacher’s best friend
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The BBC TeachingEnglish team has published an article titled “Get lit up: literature as a teacher’s best friend”. BBC TeachingEnglish team team says, “Literature. Quite a divisive word, that. Throw it through an open window into a room full of language teachers and most will dive… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Article: Get lit up: literature as a teacher’s best friend
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 English language learning is so multi-faceted that experts describe a “heterogeneous language class” as a class with more than one student. Ability, needs, background, age, and psychological make-up are just some of the variables among learners. Preparing different tasks for students at different levels is… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Video: Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners
Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Faculty are big users of and believers in social media. Virtually all higher education teaching faculty are aware of the major social media sites; more than three-quarters visited a social media site within the past month for their personal use; and nearly one-half posted content.… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 35 – Research Paper: Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media