Category: ELTWeekly Vol. 5

Webinar: ‘Helping students with speaking’, January 16

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 CUP is hosting a webinar on ‘Helping students with speaking’ with Chris Redston on Thursday, January 16, 2013 at 3:00 pm. Webinar description Chris Redston, author of face2face, talks about how you can create successful and meaningful speaking opportunities in your classes. He will discuss how to… Continue reading Webinar: ‘Helping students with speaking’, January 16

Book of the week: ‘Instant Academic Skills’ by Sarah Lane

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Instant Academic Skills provides ready-to-teach, photocopiable lessons for busy teachers who want to give their students extra practice in general academic skills. The lessons cover all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and can be taught individually or as a learning ‘unit’. Challenging activities… Continue reading Book of the week: ‘Instant Academic Skills’ by Sarah Lane

Video: Authenticity and Legitimacy in Multilingual Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036   After problematizing the authority of the native speaker in second language acquisition research, applied linguists are now questioning the very notion of standard national language as an appropriate object of study (Canagarajah 2007, Cenoz & Gorter 2010). More important than learning the elements of… Continue reading Video: Authenticity and Legitimacy in Multilingual Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Conference: ‘Trends in English for Science & Technology’, India – January 29, 2014

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY (Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Jeppiaar Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Road, Chennai – 600 119, Tamil Nadu, India A one day National Conference on Trends in English for Science & Technology with special focus on Technical Writing (Download Brochure) TEST… Continue reading Conference: ‘Trends in English for Science & Technology’, India – January 29, 2014

Research Paper: ‘Two Dimensions of Teacher Knowledge: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching’ – Devon Woods & Hamide Çakır

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The interconnected conceptual areas of teacher knowledge and teacher beliefs (included by some authors under the rubric of teacher cognition) have been debated in the field of language education intensively for the last two decades, during which time the terminology used in the discussions has… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Two Dimensions of Teacher Knowledge: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching’ – Devon Woods & Hamide Çakır

Case Study: ‘Promoting Language Learning in the Primary Classroom and Beyond’ – Liam F. Heaney

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The aims of this study were threefold. The first was to identify some of the key methodologies used by teachers to support the language learning of primary-aged children. There is a plethora of literature that discusses various language-teaching methodologies. Whilst educational “jargon” is avoided, there… Continue reading Case Study: ‘Promoting Language Learning in the Primary Classroom and Beyond’ – Liam F. Heaney

Research Paper: ‘From Unity to Diversity: Twenty-Five Years of Language-Teaching Methodology’

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 This article was written for the 25th anniversary of “English Teaching Forum” and published in 1987. In this article, the author describes methodological developments in the field of English language teaching over the past 25 years. The author has found it helpful to think of… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘From Unity to Diversity: Twenty-Five Years of Language-Teaching Methodology’

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 41

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#41 | December 9, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Conference: 12th International Asia TEFL Conference, Malaysia – August 28-30, 2014 Conference: Confluence V – The Fifth Annual International Conference on ESL/EFL – February 21-22, 2014 BUY Compelling Conversations – Get Your Students Talking – In English! Article: 5 Cracking Ways To Use Video While… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 41

Conference: 12th International Asia TEFL Conference, Malaysia – August 28-30, 2014

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#41 | December 9, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The 12th Asia TEFL International Conference and the 23rd MELTA International Conference invites delegates to share, discuss and deliberate on the issue of Developing Sustainable Quality in English Language Education in Asia. The meeting encourages ELT professionals to share innovations in sustainability directed policies, pedagogies… Continue reading Conference: 12th International Asia TEFL Conference, Malaysia – August 28-30, 2014