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Developing self-access materials for hybrid classrooms How to build students’ confidence towards summative assessment [Video] To Teach Vocabulary, Let Students Be Thespians Has the Pandemic Ushered in New Norms in Education? How online games help with English training for the workplace [News] Digital Divide: What Is It And How Can You Bridge The Gap? Time… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 1 | January 2021

As teachers we have long been working on developing materials that would foster learner autonomy and allow students to work more independently. The need for such material was highlighted by recent events, as classes around the world moved online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar examines some of the considerations to be… Continue reading Developing self-access materials for hybrid classrooms

Watch this webinar recording to learn about standards in assessment and how to make classroom-based assessment more effective, leading to greater confidence in summative assessment.

A 2020 study found that kids learning a new language retain new vocabulary at significantly higher rates if they act it out.

Edutopia’s Heather Wolpert-Gawron has published an article on new norms in education due to the pandemic. Heather says, “Remember when you had growth spurts as a teenager and your joints hurt because you grew, like, four inches overnight? For schools, 2020 has been a bit like that. It hurts to grow sometimes, but it’s necessary.… Continue reading Has the Pandemic Ushered in New Norms in Education?

The benefits of integrating online gaming platforms such as Kahoots into English language training for the workplace were highlighted by an expert from Cambridge. Dr Sarah McElwee from Cambridge Assessment English spoke at this year’s virtual Kahoot WorkSummit, a corporate learning event that attracted thousands of professionals from over 140 countries. Sarah spoke about the… Continue reading How online games help with English training for the workplace [News]

Here is an article from OUP ELT Blog. We can safely say that, through the difficulties of 2020, English language teachers have grown accustomed to delivering online classes and learning to use new digital tools. Some teachers may face many weeks ahead of continuing such classes if high Covid-19 cases see a resurgence, their new… Continue reading Digital Divide: What Is It And How Can You Bridge The Gap?

How to use Classroom Presentation Tools (CPT) for online or remote lessons [Video] Time and Tense by Nick Shepherd The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020 How Teachers Can Use Their Own Writing as Model Texts Cambridge launches new mobile English test for employability [News] Using songs with teenagers Teaching During The Pandemic: Postcards… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 24 | December 2020

This video explains how you can use OUP’s Classroom Presentation Tools to deliver remote / online lessons and as a great resource for synchronous learning. Charlotte Murphy is a Senior Consultant and Teacher Trainer at Oxford University Press.

This is an odd subject, because in a way you don’t want to teach most students anything about time and tense, except how to use them.  But teachers need to know what they mean and how they work. Put simply, time is what clocks and calendars are about; tense is about verb forms. The grammatical… Continue reading Time and Tense by Nick Shepherd