Category: ELTWeekly Volume 12 Issue 4

Scott Thornbury – What’s the latest method? Language Variety by Nick Shepherd Content based instruction in teacher education: re-shaping pre-service teachers’ beliefs about language teaching [Article] Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia [Article] 3 Tips to Remember When English Language Learners Struggle Inference Worksheets… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 4 | February 2021

Watch Scott Thornbury’s talk from our Better Learning Conference in July, where he discusses what he believes constitutes a ‘good teaching method’.

Language variety comes in several different forms. In these notes, I will talk about four. First, there are the national varieties. Australian, American, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, New Zealand, South African, Indian and Jamaican English (and there are more) are all recognisably different from each other. It’s worth remembering that the main difference is in… Continue reading Language Variety by Nick Shepherd

Article by Anna Krulatz from ELTED Journal. Content-based instruction (CBI), also referred to as content-based language teaching (CBLT), is an approach to language teaching in which studentsare taught language through academic content. This approach has been implemented in a growing number of contexts worldwide in the lastfew decades. In European contexts, a similar approach referred to… Continue reading Content based instruction in teacher education: re-shaping pre-service teachers’ beliefs about language teaching [Article]

Article by ​Jane Evison and Lucy Bailey from ELTED Journal. The English language continues to be of key strategic importance in East Asia (Hu & McKay 2012). Growing numbers of English languageteachers – both local and expatriate – in East Asia are professionalising by taking higher level qualifications including MAs in TESOL (TeachingEnglish to Speakers of… Continue reading Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia [Article]

Article by Meghan Laslocky of Edutopia. When students who are learning English struggle in school, it can be especially difficult to figure out why—and how to help. There are plenty of “myths and misconceptions about services and supports” for English language learners (ELLs), writes Lydia Breiseth for Understood, leading schools to sometimes refer language learners for special… Continue reading 3 Tips to Remember When English Language Learners Struggle

Article from BusyTeacher. As students advance through their ESL journey, they often acquire good reading and comprehension skills, at least on the surface. However, they often lack inferential reading skills to find answers and formulate ideas from clues and prior knowledge rather than directly. Being able to spot unstated suppositions is critical to comprehension as… Continue reading Inference Worksheets for ESL Students

Article from Cambridge Assessment English. English language exams are stepping stones to bigger and better things. Exams give students something to aim for and help them develop the skills they need in their lives, education and the workplace. Teachers everywhere want to see their students do well. So how can you motivate them to get… Continue reading Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence

Article from OUP ELT Blog. These days, there might only be one topic of conversation in the news, on social media, and in our own chats to friends and family. Along with new ways of working, teaching and learning, we are even adopting a new lexicon to help us talk about it. My own personal “Health”… Continue reading Step by Step: Using your Dictionary to Expand Topic Vocabulary