ELTWeekly » ELTWeekly Issue #23 http://eltweekly.com/more India's First Weekly ELT eNewsletter Sun, 30 May 2010 08:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 ELTWeekly Issue #23 Contents http://eltweekly.com/more/2009/06/eltweekly-issue-23-contents/ http://eltweekly.com/more/2009/06/eltweekly-issue-23-contents/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:46:16 +0000 Tarun Patel http://eltweekly.com/more/?p=328 - Quote of the week

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British : the use of archaisms (as in a historical novel)

Example Sentence:

Bridget’s novel, set in colonial Virginia, features an engaging and cohesive plot, but the dialogue contains so much gadzookery that it doesn’t sound realistic.

To know more about the word ‘gadzookery’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?May.02.2009

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]]> http://eltweekly.com/more/2009/06/eltweekly-issue-23-word-of-the-week-gadzookery/feed/ 1 ELTWeekly Issue #23, Video: Real World English in Classrooms http://eltweekly.com/more/2009/06/eltweekly-issue-23-video-real-world-english-in-classrooms/ http://eltweekly.com/more/2009/06/eltweekly-issue-23-video-real-world-english-in-classrooms/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:29:27 +0000 Tarun Patel http://eltweekly.com/more/?p=324 This video is about formal school component of the project ” Improving English Language Teaching and Learning in Mindanao” (IELTLM). Video made by Stuart Leigh of Real World Productions, New York, NY. It focuses on English language education in the Philippines. IELTLM is a project of the Real World Alliance (Real World Productions, Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Notre Dame University at Cotabato City, Mindanao State University at Tawi Tawi, and the Philippine Broadcasting Service).

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- Napoleon Hill

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