Cambridge is hosting a webinar on ‘Why teach life competencies? Classroom activities for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers & A2 Flyers’ on February 21 and February 24, 2023. Why teach life competencies? Our world is changing fast and we need to prepare our students with the skills and experiences that go beyond learning an additional… Continue reading Using storytelling to build confidence in Young Learners classes: a focus on techniques and resources [Webinar]
Creative thinking: helping students and employers make good choices
The University of Cambridge has published a new article on the importance of creative thinking. Organisations need talent. Cambridge University has plenty of it. In theory, therefore, running the Cambridge Careers Service should be the easiest job in the world. In practice, of course, it’s not. The sheer abundance of talent here combined with the… Continue reading Creative thinking: helping students and employers make good choices
OALD: The Impact of Digitalization on Information Presentation
The OUP ELT team has published an article on the impact of digitalization on information presentation. Dictionaries were once thought of only as a printed reference work. However, from around 1990, English dictionaries for learners became available on portable electronic devices, CD/DVD-ROMs, and the internet. These days, dictionary apps are easily accessible on smartphones. In… Continue reading OALD: The Impact of Digitalization on Information Presentation
ELTWeekly Volume 14, Issue 3 | January 2023
Teaching Tips: A combination of theory and practice [Video]
The CUP team says, “In this week’s webinar Penny Ur discusses the relationship between theory and practice and provides plenty of practical examples for you to use in your language classroom. Find out more about Penny’s new book, Penny Ur’s 100 Teaching Tips which provides 100 hands-on tips on 19 different areas of classroom teaching,… Continue reading Teaching Tips: A combination of theory and practice [Video]
Professionalism in English Language Teaching [Video]
Watch Silvana Richardson’s talk on ‘Professionalism in English Language Teaching’. The CUP ELT team says, “In many contexts English Language Teachers have been perceived historically as the ‘Cinderella’ of the teaching profession. In some cases they have been required to ‘top up’ their qualifications, as a result of education authorities making calls to ‘professionalise the… Continue reading Professionalism in English Language Teaching [Video]
English-Medium Instruction with Jim McKinley [Podcast]
TEFLology has published the latest podcast episode ‘English-Medium Instruction with Jim McKinley’. The TEFLology team says, “Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast – a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. In today’s episode we explore English-Medium Instruction with Dr Jim McKinley. Jim is an associate professor of applied linguistics in higher… Continue reading English-Medium Instruction with Jim McKinley [Podcast]
Integrating ICT in the classroom, January 2023 [Webinar]
British Council is hosting a webinar ‘Integrating ICT in the classroom’ on January 27, 2023. The British Council team says, “Join us on 27 January from 13.00pm UK for three sessions by English Language Teaching experts. In this event, speakers Chris Roland, Graham Stanley and Nare Hakobyan explore different aspects of integrating ICT in the… Continue reading Integrating ICT in the classroom, January 2023 [Webinar]
Preparing future teachers for CLIL: An in-depth investigation of three cases [Report]
This British Council report presents the results of a study about preparing teachers for content and language integrated learning (CLIL). CLIL has spread around the world as a powerful educational approach which combines subject and additional language learning, and therefore, it is important to ensure quality teacher preparation for this approach. This research used questionnaires,… Continue reading Preparing future teachers for CLIL: An in-depth investigation of three cases [Report]
How can we use virtual reality to teach English? [Podcast]
Here is the latest episode of the British Council TeachingEnglish podcast ‘How can we use virtual reality to teach English?’. The British Council team says, “In recent times, the influence of virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the metaverse in our daily lives has increased. This influence has also been very noticeable in English language teaching… Continue reading How can we use virtual reality to teach English? [Podcast]