Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018 Why should we teach phrasal verbs? Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording! Stephen Krashen at the 36th TESOL Greece… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 3
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Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education
When people embark upon the journey to become a language teacher, they begin to face challenges to the beliefs they already have about language learning and teaching, beliefs that have to a large extent been formed by their own experience as language learners. During the language teacher education programme, there is an expectation that change… Continue reading Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education
Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition
Prof. Mitsutomi and Dr. Kirjavainen co-presented at the IAFOR Asian Conference on Language Learning 2014 (ACLL2014) in Osaka, Japan. For more information about the ACLL conference, please visit www.acll.iafor.org. Their Featured Presentation looks at the process of first and second language acquisition and introduces some of their latest findings in the course of doing their… Continue reading Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition
Stephen Krashen at the 36th TESOL Greece International Convention
Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018
The Global Association of English Studies and the H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research are pleased to issue this expression of interest for the Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, a truly multi-disciplinary forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of various sub-disciplines of… Continue reading Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018
Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording!
Are your students speaking confidently? Join ELT experts as they discuss teaching speaking live from a Cambridge college. Are we failing our language students when it comes to teaching speaking? Is there more we could be doing? Many students measure their progress in language learning through their confidence and ability to speak spontaneously when faced… Continue reading Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording!
Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?
The Cambrige team has published a free white paper “Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?”. Sarah Laughran says, “Extensive reading is a useful practice that can manifest itself in different ways depending on the teacher and class, however it remains a relatively underused language teaching technique. Dr. Peter Watkins has created an Extensive reading in ELT… Continue reading Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?
Why should we teach phrasal verbs?
English has a number of verbs used with particles. Examples are get up, take off, sit down, go out. These phrasal verbs are extremely common in everyday usage and are made with some of the most frequently used verbs and particles in English. The verbs include get, go, come, take, make, do, and the particles… Continue reading Why should we teach phrasal verbs?
10 ways home learning apps can boost children’s English learning
Today’s children are much more tech savvy than yesterday’s, and this has had a profound effect on the way that they learn languages! No wonder then that there has been an increasing interest in home learning technologies that support language learning at school and back at home. Children are natural language learners. They love to… Continue reading 10 ways home learning apps can boost children’s English learning