ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT events
National Conference on ‘Literature, Language and Technology’, H M Patel Institute of English Training & Research, Vidyanagar, Gujarat – India, May 23 – 24, 2009 Technology, in today’s world, has become an integral part of our lives and whether, we like it or not, is widely accessed by the teachers and learners for varied purposes.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT events
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#19, Article: Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) developed some two decades ago as a response against the diverse approaches to second/foreign language teaching practiced in the last forty to fifty years, especially in the Structural (Grammatical) Approach. CLT is a language teaching programme focusing on learners’ ability to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Article: Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
Feldman is Howard County Teacher of the Year Kimberly Feldman had no idea what was happening when Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin and other top-ranking school officials entered her class at Oakland Mills High School with a bouquet of flowers. Her students were thrilled by a mock trial lesson, which her principal said is indicative of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#18 Contents
Click Here to DOWNLOAD ELTWeekly Issue#18 in PDF Format – Quote of the week – Worldwide ELT news – Video of the week: Anecdotes in the ELT classroom: Sue Kay & Vaughan Jones – Word of the week: extremophile – Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog – Request ELT Webinars – Article: Integration of Skills in English Language Teaching By… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18 Contents
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog
TEFLtastic with Alex Case Tefltastic is loaded with the variety of resources for the teacher of English. Alex Case has posted multiple blogs and articles. He covers almost all the topics in relation to the teaching methodology. However, he has focused more on the linguistic areas useful in teaching English language. Apart from linguistics he… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #18, Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Word of the week: extremophile
extremophile • ik-STREE-muh-fyle – noun meaning: an organism that lives under extreme environmental conditions example: “Cold-loving extremophiles could show us what kinds of creatures might live … in parts of the solar system previously thought uninhabitable.” To know more about the word ‘extremophile’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.01.2009
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Request ELT Webinars
Dr. Ranganayaki Srinivas has launched the ‘Webinar Course Just For You’ program. She designs each webinar on a specific topic based on participants’ needs. Dr. Ranganayaki says, “What is the specific webinar course you are looking for? Post your questions on which I can conduct a webinar course specially for you. Vote for the questions submitted by others.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Request ELT Webinars