This video includes snippets from the following segments: * Components of Effective Instructional Delivery in ESL/ELD and Sheltered Instruction/SDAIE Featuring a classroom scene that demonstrates best practices from the English Learners Scaffolding Strategies Checklist * Contextual Factors in Second Language Acquisition Featuring a panel discussion, How is it that some English Learners acquire English more… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #21, Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum
ELTWeekly Issue#21, Worldwide ELT events
2nd English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Coference ,Hochschule (University of Applied Sciences) in Ulm, Germany, 26 September Plenary Speaker: Thomas Haeckel, Cisco Systems Europe – Register here: www.esp-conference.de Do you teach specialist English? Would you like to know what’s new in your field? Have you thought of moving into specialist English teaching but are not… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#21, Worldwide ELT events
ELTWeekly Issue #21, Puzzle of the week
Using the letter grid below, how many words can you find. Each word must contain the central H and no letter can be used twice, however, the letters do not have to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is at least one nine letter word. Advanced: 50+ words. Average: 25 words.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #21, Puzzle of the week
ELTWeekly Issue #20 Contents
– Quote of the week – Word of the week: otiose – Worldwide ELT news Click Here to DOWNLOAD ELTWeekly Issue#20 in PDF Format – Worldwide ELT events – Video of the week: Anecdotes in the ELT classroom – Book of the week: Teaching English Language Learners – Article: An i on podcasts – Article: English through Personal Development Click Here to DOWNLOAD… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #20 Contents
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: An i on podcasts
An i on podcasts By Karenne Sylvester This article first appeared on Kalinago English (http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com/) A great way to learn English is by listening to English. There are many podcasts (short files of audio regularly delivered to your computer) available on i-tunes. i-tunes is free of charge, you can download it from here. Once you have… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: An i on podcasts
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Worldwide ELT news
Gujrati medium teachers shifted back AHMEDABAD: The state education department recently issued orders that nine surplus Gujarati medium teachers who were posted in English mediumschools for over a decade be transferred back to Gujarati medium schools. This directive comes close on the heels of the TOI report that the pathetic state of English medium students who constantly… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Research paper: Semiotic Approach and Its Contributions to English Language Learning and Teaching
Semiotic Approach and Its Contributions to English Language Learning and Teaching By Sert, Olcay Abstract Semiotics is a progressing and promising discipline with its applications in many fields of study. As a bridge between semiotics and foreign language teaching (FLT), educational semiotics has started to attract attention of many scholars, English Language Teaching (ELT) instructors and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Research paper: Semiotic Approach and Its Contributions to English Language Learning and Teaching
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: English through Personal Development
English through Personal Development By Michael Berman Mike Solly in the April 2008 edition of the EL Gazette wrote “It is my belief that global issues and questions of identity start from “I” and “who I am”, and what I have called English through Personal Development or ETPD is very much about these questions – making… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: English through Personal Development
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Research Article: Is Information Technology the Right Way to Teach Business Studies?
Is Information Technology the Right Way to Teach Business Studies? – A project Undertaken in the Private Business Schools Dr. Bhavna Mashru(Ph.D,) The objective was to prepare and present reports, examining the use of Information Technologies in Business Studies. Along with the major objective there were some minor ones related to the development of communication and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Research Article: Is Information Technology the Right Way to Teach Business Studies?
ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: Making writing interactive
Making writing interactive By Alex Case 1. Collaborative writing Getting students to write together automatically means there is interaction between them. Possible problems when doing this include: the stronger or more dominant student having the pen and the others doing nothing, students doing all their speaking in L1 and only writing in English, students and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: Making writing interactive