Becoming A Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching By Elaine K Horwitz Book Details Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 1 edition (February 5, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0205430821 ISBN-13: 978-0205430826 Price: $52.00 Editorial Reviews Product Description Becoming a Language Teacher is a comprehensive guide to the knowledge and classroom skills teachers need to meet… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Book of the week: Becoming A Language Teacher
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events
IATEFL YL & LT SIG March 2009 This conference is jointly organised by the British Council and IATEFL’s Young Learner & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. Sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, it is for all teachers of English and focuses on three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching. The conference agenda… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news
The place of English language in India today In the mid-1980s, when I was studying journalism in the US, a question I was often asked was: “How do you speak English so well?” My reply was simple and honest. I would start by patiently explaining how I had studied English not just as a language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it
Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it By Michael Berman In every community, every family, every classroom, and every staffroom, there are relationship problems, most of which are swept under the carpet, and most of which inevitably resurface again, often when we are least expecting them to, to cause even greater problems… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: Coping with Conflict – In the Classroom or Out of it
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Video of the week: Successful Pronunication 1 (Macmillan)
Adrian Underhill takes a practical approach to teaching pronunciation in this video from Macmillan ELT. You will learn new ways to help your students work on English sounds, words and connected speech. Video 1 of 4. See more at www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology
ELTWeekly Issue #16, Word of the week: wherefore
wherefore • WAIR-for • adverb meaning: 1 : for what reason or purpose : why 2 : therefore. example: “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet) To know more about the word ‘wherefore’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Mar.15.2009
ELTWeekly Issue #16, Quote of the week
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
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ELTWeekly Issue#16, Subscriber space: Research paper by Mahnaz Azad
Accommodation Theory Revisited By Mahnaz Azad, Islamic Azad University In interpersonal situations, language can be used to convey information about one’s personality, temperament, social status, group belonging, and so forth. Although many of us like to think that we interact essentially the same way to virtually every person we encounter, due to fairness and our integrity,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Subscriber space: Research paper by Mahnaz Azad
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: What can your Business English students teach you?
What can your Business English students teach you? By Karenne Sylvester This article first appeared on Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/) I have another great secret. My students are incredible people. They are bankers, managers, managing bankers; they are CEOs and CFOs, web programmers and designers; they are parents, they are wives and husbands, they belong to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Article: What can your Business English students teach you?