[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] What are the key characteristics of this situation? Learners’ vocabulary development is still at the 3,000-word level. Learners lack knowledge of collocational patterns. Vocabulary development plays a vital role in making the transition from an intermediate to a more advanced level of language proficiency,… Continue reading When learners have a limited vocabulary range #1 (Cambridge Conversations)
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Teaching Pre-School Children: The Importance of Stories (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17 | September 21, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Oral stories are particularly important. For both adults and children language is perceived largely through sound, which many people believe links to a primitive human instinct. It’s easy to ignore words on a page, but humans are hard wired to pay attention to… Continue reading Teaching Pre-School Children: The Importance of Stories (Cambridge Conversations)
ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16 | August 31, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Six ways to boost classroom participation: Part Six (OUP Blog) Bridging the gap between receptive and productive competence (Cambridge Conversations) Five Tips for Planning an ICT Implementation (Video) OUP Webinar: Assigning homework and tracking your students’ progress with the Online Practice and Online… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16
Bridging the gap between receptive and productive competence (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16 | August 31, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Key characteristics While learners’ receptive competence continues to develop, their productive competence remains relatively static. Language items that learners recognize and understand in the input they hear do not pass into their productive competence. All language users have greater receptive competence (language they… Continue reading Bridging the gap between receptive and productive competence (Cambridge Conversations)