ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Wired: A Clever Plan to Teach Schoolkids New Languages With a Free App OUP ELT Article: Factors affecting the success of young L2/FL learners Video: Tor Wallin Andreassen on MOOC Cambridge University Press Webinar: Getting them to talk in English, January 20 Cambridge University… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3

Video: How to Get Students Ready for Learning

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] A must watch video. Teachers at Mount Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor, Maine, use proven Responsive Classroom techniques — such as relationship-building morning meetings and engaging student-led activities — to get students focused and ready to learn.

Video: Tor Wallin Andreassen on MOOC

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] He is the founder and director of Service Forum, the founder of The Norwegian Customer Satisfaction Barometer at the Norwegian School of Management, and the founder of the annual Professor Johan Arndt Marketing Conference. He is an acclaimed academic who have received awards for… Continue reading Video: Tor Wallin Andreassen on MOOC

Video: Sajan George on ‘The Future of Education’

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Sajan George on “The Future of Education” Sajan is the Founder & CEO of Matchbook Learning, a national non-profit school turnaround management organization that has designed and implemented a unique blended model of school, the only one of its kind targeting turnaround (i.e. bottom… Continue reading Video: Sajan George on ‘The Future of Education’

Cambridge Blog: How to help your students to stop struggling and start speaking

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Anna says, “For me, as a language teacher, getting students to speak up in class and motivating them to participate in discussions is a challenging task. But, as a language learner I know that speaking a foreign language can be a vulnerable, scary and… Continue reading Cambridge Blog: How to help your students to stop struggling and start speaking

Cambridge University Press Webinar: How to improve your students’ IELTS score, January 27

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Cambridge University Press team says, “The IELTS test is a high-stakes test taken by over 2 million candidates every year. This webinar considers the problems faced by band 4 or 5 candidates who are preparing for the test and aiming to reach bands 6… Continue reading Cambridge University Press Webinar: How to improve your students’ IELTS score, January 27

Cambridge University Press Webinar: Getting them to talk in English, January 20

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Cambridge University Press team says, “Getting learners to talk in English is one of the most difficult challenges facing the teacher. One of the major reasons for this is that speaking – unlike listening, reading and writing – can only normally take place directly… Continue reading Cambridge University Press Webinar: Getting them to talk in English, January 20

OUP ELT Article: Factors affecting the success of young L2/FL learners

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Victoria Murphy says, “For the past few decades there has been a growing interest in child second language (L2) learning, particularly evidenced by the fact that increasingly around the world children are required to learn a second language in the primary school classroom.  For… Continue reading OUP ELT Article: Factors affecting the success of young L2/FL learners

Wired: A Clever Plan to Teach Schoolkids New Languages With a Free App

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 3 | January 19, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Wired magazine has published an article about a free app that helps teaching new languages to kids. Issie Lapowsky says, “In developing countries like Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Mozambique, the market for English language learning is red hot. These are places where, often, English proficiency… Continue reading Wired: A Clever Plan to Teach Schoolkids New Languages With a Free App