ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 2

Article: Igniting a Passion for Reading Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language Article: Back to School Activities for your EFL Classroom Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017 Book of the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 2

Article: Back to School Activities for your EFL Classroom

Happy New Year! To celebrate another successful year ahead of language learning, and to welcome you and your students back to class, we asked three of our former contributors Vanessa Esteves, Christopher Graham, and Julietta Schoenmann to devise a series of lesson plans and activity worksheets for your EFL classrooms. From adult through to primary,… Continue reading Article: Back to School Activities for your EFL Classroom

9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017

EDULEARN17, the 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on the on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of July, 2017. EDULEARN is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists and professionals from the educational sector. After 8 years, it has become a… Continue reading 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017

Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages

Try to imagine being an illiterate farmer living in extreme poverty in a remote rural village, without electricity and with very few visits from anyone outside your village. How could you learn to keep your family healthy or grow enough food to feed them? In 2007, Literacy Bridge was formed to understand this problem and… Continue reading Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages

Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education

Universities today are under an enormous amount of criticism and pressure: structures and pedagogical models developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, increasingly higher costs and rising demands for an educated work force in a changing and complex world. Minerva’s founder Ben Nelson talks about the origins of some of these problems, but also offers… Continue reading Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education

Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes

About the webinar On November 15, Grammar and Beyond author Dr. Randi Reppen hosted a webinar on integrating classroom grammar activities across all skill levels. The webinar focused on activities that can be used in the classroom for each major language skill: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Dr. Reppen opened the webinar with a discussion… Continue reading Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes

Book of the week: ‘The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching’ by Michael McCarthy

Book description A volume concerned with best practice in blended learning for language teaching. The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching makes the case that it is pedagogy, rather than technology, that should underpin the design of blended learning programmes. The book is organised into five sections: Connecting Theories and Blended Learning; Implications for… Continue reading Book of the week: ‘The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching’ by Michael McCarthy

Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language

Cambridge is publishing Scott Thornbury’s new book ‘About Language’ in March 2017. Book description Tasks for teachers of English that help to develop language awareness and invite consideration of the pedagogical implications and classroom applications. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, incorporating recent developments in language description, whilst keeping the organisation and structure of… Continue reading Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language