[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Video: Getting Students to Stick to English During the Lessons Video: Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley Conference: 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at UC Berkeley, US, August 21-23 Conference: ‘The Great War and English Studies’, University of Dhaka, December 6-7 Research… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14
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Video: Getting Students to Stick to English During the Lessons
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] In this video, Herbert Puchta shares his ideas for getting students to use the English during the lesson, rather than their own language. Click here to watch the video.
Video: Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how… Continue reading Video: Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
Conference: 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at UC Berkeley, US, August 21-23
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Conference Dates: August 21-23, 2014Venue: Clark Kerr Conference Center at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.) Types of Presentations: Keynote Presentations: 45 minutes (invited only) Research Papers: 20 – 25 minute presentations Poster Presentations: 90 minutes Conference Description: The theme of the 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at… Continue reading Conference: 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at UC Berkeley, US, August 21-23
Conference: ‘The Great War and English Studies’, University of Dhaka, December 6-7
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] The First World War was a truly momentous event; things fell apart rapidly all over the world after it; the centre seemed not to hold anymore; millions died or were traumatized because of it; and innocence seemed to give way permanently to massive disillusionment… Continue reading Conference: ‘The Great War and English Studies’, University of Dhaka, December 6-7
Research Paper: ‘Aspects of Editing’ by Professor (Dr) Shibu Simon
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 14 | May 26, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Introduction At the height of the Communicative Approach to language teaching in the late Eighties and in the early Nineties, it had become fashionable to speak derisively of translation, and also to some extent of editing, for its association with the ‘old-fashioned’ Grammar Translation… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Aspects of Editing’ by Professor (Dr) Shibu Simon