ELTWeekly Issue#22, Article: ELT Jargon June 2009

By Tarun Patel

ELT Jargon June 2009

By Alex Case

behaviourism- the idea that the kids not being naughty is about all you can expect from a kindergarten English lesson

Communication Accommodation Theory- the discredited idea that host families in the UK actually speak to the students who are staying with them

communicative strategies- ways students can avoid having to communicate in the classroom, e.g. by complaining about pairwork because “I never know when I am making mistakes”

contrastive analysis- comparing yourself to your partner’s ex boyfriends and/ or girlfriends

Read the rest of article at http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teaching/tefl/elt-jargon-june-2009/

Alex Case has been a teacher, teacher trainer, Director of Studies, ELT writer and editor in Turkey, Thailand, Spain, Greece, Italy, Japan, UK and now Korea, and writes TEFLtastic blog (www.tefl.net/alexcase)

*ELTWeekly would like to thankAlex Case for contributing this article.

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June 21st, 2009

About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.