Video: Language Teaching Methods: Suggestopedia

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#40 | November 24, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Language Teaching Methods explores various methodologies of English language teaching. This was a joint project by Diane Larsen-Freeman and the U.S. Information Agency and was produced in 1990. This video demonstrates Suggestopedia with Lise Sparrow.

Research Paper: ‘Effect of Using Facebook to Assist English for Business Communication Course Instruction’ by Ru-Chu Shin

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#40 | November 24, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 This paper aimed to explore the effect of incorporating blended learning with Facebook and peer assessment for English for Business Communication course for college students. A total of 111 students from a public technological university participated in this study. The participants were divided into three Facebook… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Effect of Using Facebook to Assist English for Business Communication Course Instruction’ by Ru-Chu Shin

Research Paper: ‘Solving the Problems of Designing and Teaching a Packed English for Specific Purposes Course’ by Belinda Ho

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#40 | November 24, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Background: In an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course offered to a department in a university in Hong Kong preparing the students for their internship, students were expected to learn to write and engage in spoken activities related to a number of documents over a period… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Solving the Problems of Designing and Teaching a Packed English for Specific Purposes Course’ by Belinda Ho

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 39

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Conference: Chicago International Conference on Education 2014 (Chicago ICE), May 2014, USA Research Paper: ‘Students’ Motivation towards Computer Use in EFL Learning’ by Gulten Genc & Selami Aydin Research Paper: ‘CALL for Researchers: Capturing a Ubiquitous Influence of Technology’ by Mie Shigemitsu Symposium: ‘Technology… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 39

Conference: Chicago International Conference on Education 2014 (Chicago ICE), May 2014, USA

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The 2nd annual Chicago International Conference on Education (Chicago ICE 2014) will be held in Chicago, a rich and complex urban landscape. Chicago ICE 2014 will again provide a venue to bring together a wide audience of academicians and professionals in related fields to discuss… Continue reading Conference: Chicago International Conference on Education 2014 (Chicago ICE), May 2014, USA

Research Paper: ‘CALL for Researchers: Capturing a Ubiquitous Influence of Technology’ by Mie Shigemitsu

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The last few decades saw a dramatic progress in computer technology, which challenged many taken-for-granted assumptions about human communication. In terms of language classroom settings, integrating computers into teaching and learning brings certain communication patterns and, at the same time, poses the question about… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘CALL for Researchers: Capturing a Ubiquitous Influence of Technology’ by Mie Shigemitsu

Research Paper: ‘Students’ Motivation towards Computer Use in EFL Learning’ by Gulten Genc & Selami Aydin

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 It has been widely recognized that language instruction that integrates technology has become popular, and has had a tremendous impact on language learning process whereas learners are expected to be more motivated in a web-based Computer assisted language learning program, and improve their comprehensive… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Students’ Motivation towards Computer Use in EFL Learning’ by Gulten Genc & Selami Aydin

Symposium: ‘Technology in ELT: Challenges and Remedies’, November 23, Anand-India

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM), Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, Anand, Gujarat is organizing one day National Symposium on “Technology in ELT: Challenges and Remedies” on 23 November 2013 | Saturday in collaboration with English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELT@I),… Continue reading Symposium: ‘Technology in ELT: Challenges and Remedies’, November 23, Anand-India

Research Paper: ‘International Intelligibility in English’ by Paresh Joshi

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Evolution of human civilizations has it that there has been cross continental communication much before the idea of English as an international language existed. For centuries there has been international trade done across the continents. Traders have been interacting with one another. Undoubtedly, with… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘International Intelligibility in English’ by Paresh Joshi

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 38

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#38 | October 28, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: Communicative Language Teaching: Jeremy Harmer and Scott Thornbury Video: ELL Conference 2012: Oh NO!!! Your Student Speaks Very Little English Symposium: ‘Technology in ELT: Challenges and Remedies’, November 23, Anand-India Conference: ‘Navigating Diaspora’, March 2014, Silchar-India Conference: ‘Innovations in English Language Teaching’, November 23,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 38