ELTWeekly Issue#19, Subscriber space: A Book Review by Hall Houston

Teaching Unplugged by Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury A Book Review by Hall Houston  About 8 years ago, I read an article titled “Teaching Unplugged” by Scott Thornbury in It’s for Teachers magazine. The article described a new approach to teaching languages that de-emphasized coursebooks and other teaching materials, and stressed real communication between students. This approach was… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Subscriber space: A Book Review by Hall Houston

ELTWeekly Issue#19, Subscriber space: Research paper By Sima Shirdelpour of Islamic Azad University

The Effect of Explicit Instruction of Cognitive Strategies on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension performance      By, Sima Shirdelpour, Islamic Azad University, Email: sintiash@yahoo.com  Abstract  From the perspective of education as a long life process, one of the main aims of the educator is to help students cope with self-directed, autonomous learning. Teaching students to read effectively unaided would seem to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Subscriber space: Research paper By Sima Shirdelpour of Islamic Azad University

ELTWeekly Issue#18, Cool ELT resources

*** Teacher of English.com *** Teacher of English.com is the UK’s premiere online PowerPoint based GCSE English resources website for teaching English at KS2, KS3 and KS4 GCSE English. Teacher of English provides editable teaching resources, PowerPoint lesson plans and schemes of work for teachers of English Language and English Literature. All their resources are developed and produced… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Cool ELT resources

ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT events

*** 2009 EUROCALL: New Trends in Computer Assisted Language Learning, Gandia, September 9-12 ***  After 13 years EUROCALL returns to Valencia. Some of the more senior members of EUROCALL will recall the 1995 Conference which took place in September that year, hosted by the Department of Modern Languages. Although e-mail was only slowly emerging at the time, EUROCALL… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue#17, Article: I dislike the word homework

I dislike the word homework By Karenne Sylvester This article first appeared on Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/) I was just about to turn off the Kalinago and go on over to write in How-to-Learn-English, about idioms and ballparks but just before I do that I just gotta get something off my chest. I hate the word homework. I teach… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#17, Article: I dislike the word homework

Article: Importance of English Language Teaching in India

Importance of English Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi, Deputy Director, Amity School of Languages Since the colonization of India, English became the language of our country and is soon expanding. The teaching of English is gaining importance in every area today. With all its countless, instructional objectives like the aural-oral skills of listening and… Continue reading Article: Importance of English Language Teaching in India

ELTWeekly Issue#15, Subscriber space: Research paper by Milan Pandya

The need of technology in teaching-learning environment: Present Status and Future Perspectives By Milan Pandya, Gujarat, India Abstract Globalization and technological change processes that have accelerated in tandem over the past many years created a new global education system “powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge”. The use of technology in education has… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#15, Subscriber space: Research paper by Milan Pandya

ELTWeekly Issue#11, Worldwide ELT news

English-a Vehicle for Service Industry – kanglaonline.com In the globalized world, English is increasingly becoming a medium of communication for almost all interactions – social, economic or political. The interactions take place through various available ways – real time face to face personal interaction, virtual interactions over the internet, which could be on real time basis… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#11, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue #9, E-learning: The Journey so far

Dear Friends, We are here again with the latest issue of ELTWeekly (now reaching more than 520 teachers of English in 28 countries). Issue#9 contains an article by Bhaskar Pandya “E-learning: The Journey so far”. The Expert Article column features an article titled “EThree Terrific English Language Teaching Movies Your Learners Will Love” by Larry M.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #9, E-learning: The Journey so far