Using Dictionaries by Tarun Patel Try to give the students each an English-English dictionary. Make sure they know how to use it. If not, teach them how. Encourage them to refer to their dictionary whenever appropriate during the lesson, though they should try to guess the meaning from the context first where possible. In the classroom… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#6, Tip of the week: Using Dictionaries

Reading Aloud by Tarun Patel During your ELT session pick a student and ask him/her to read the instructions for your activities for that particular session. e.g. ‘Nilu, please read the instructions for Activity X for us’. And yes, don’t forget to pick a different student each time. Why read aloud? 1. It saves you… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Tip of the week: Reading Aloud

Here is the video of the week for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly: In this video Dafne Gonzalez provides information on using podcasts and voice emails for ELT. This workshop was held for teacher training in ICT. An event sponsored by the BC in Merida, Venezuela. Don’t forget to leave a commend after watching the video… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Video of the week: Podcasts and Voice emails

Here’s the featured article for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly: Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities by  Bhaskar Pandya Learning Disabilities Defined: In a Language Class, a teacher often finds that all the students, including exceptional students have their own unique and individual set of learning strengths, weaknesses, and needs. It is for the teacher… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Featured article: Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities

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Teaching in Multilingual Contexts by  Dr. Ranganayaki Srinivas Language teaching strategies have to be reconsidered in the multilingual context of countries like India. We use a number of approaches, methods, tasks and techniques imported from other monolingual countries with or without modifications. However, they do not satisfy the needs of multilingual learners. We need to develop… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Subscriber space: An article by Dr. Ranganayaki Srinivas

  The ELT book of the week for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly is: A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom by Michael Berman Book Details Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Crown House Publishing (February 1, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 1899836233 ISBN-13: 978-1899836239   Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Crown House Publishing (February 1, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 1899836233 ISBN-13: 978-1899836239 Price: $34.95 Editorial Reviews Review Refreshingly… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Book of the week: A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom

Here’s the guest article for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly: Why I Like the English Language by Barbara Freedman-De Vito   I really like the English language. I’ve been speaking it all my life, but it’s not until I became an English teacher, teaching English as a foreign language, that I really started to understand how… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Guest Article: Why I Like the English Language