After a decade of working in translator training in Israel and another of teaching English majors, two years ago I accepted a position teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at a teacher-training college in Jerusalem. I walked into the EAP classroom confident that teaching EAP to future teachers would have a great deal in common… Continue reading Developing empathy through role reversal: a personal case study
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Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence
The Cambridge English team has published a useful article on helping your students to prepare for the exams. 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… Continue reading Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence
Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists!
Here is an article from Oxford University Press ELT Blog. When we create assessments, why is it important to make sure vocabulary is at a particular level? When we create tests, we have to know that learners have sufficient vocabulary to engage with the reading and listening materials. If the level is too high, the… Continue reading Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists!
ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 4 | February 2021
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
Scott Thornbury – What’s the latest method?
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 by Nick Shepherd
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
Content based instruction in teacher education: re-shaping pre-service teachers’ beliefs about language teaching [Article]
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]
Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia [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]
3 Tips to Remember When English Language Learners Struggle
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
Inference Worksheets for ESL Students
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