[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The first excerpt from our book reviewed the Common Core Writing Standards and offered general strategies for teachers of English-language learners. Our next post differentiated between cooperative and collaborative learning activities, and suggested collaborative strategies for meeting the Standards. In this post, our third and… Continue reading Peer Review, Common Core, and ELLs (Edutopia)
Category: Volume 8 Issue 8
Webinar: Using authentic practice tests in IELTS classrooms: Reading, April 7
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Preparing students for high-stakes exams brings many challenges, including the risk of over-testing. We’ll provide guidance in exploiting authentic practice materials to bring together language teaching and test preparation to help students succeed.
Webinar: Using corpora to inform the teaching of academic vocabulary, April 5
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] What should we try to cover when we set out to provide vocabulary input for our EAP students? In this webinar, we look at how we can utilise corpora to understand academic vocabulary. Using frequency and keyword techniques, we can isolate the words and chunks… Continue reading Webinar: Using corpora to inform the teaching of academic vocabulary, April 5
Language Learning Psychology: Getting into the ‘right mind’ for teaching and learning (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] How we approach language learning, whether as a learner or a teacher, is crucially defined by our psychology; the way we view ourselves and our abilities, our motivation for engaging with or persisting in tasks, our beliefs about how the language should be learned and… Continue reading Language Learning Psychology: Getting into the ‘right mind’ for teaching and learning (OUP ELT Blog)
CLIL: the 3 Dimensions of Content (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] It remains an interesting irony that subject teachers have been exhorted, ever since the famous Bullock Report in 1975, to become ersatz-language teachers in the ‘Language across the curriculum’ movement, whilst language teachers have never been exhorted to understand the world of content. They remain… Continue reading CLIL: the 3 Dimensions of Content (OUP ELT Blog)
We Have Student-Led Conferences. Why Not Teacher-Led Evaluations? (Edutopia)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 8 | April 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] As the ideas associated with growth mindset continue to spread, schools are envisioning and experimenting with new forms of assessment that highlight the growth process and the individual path of each learner. One example of this is the student-led conference, which is quickly replacing the… Continue reading We Have Student-Led Conferences. Why Not Teacher-Led Evaluations? (Edutopia)