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Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Webinar: Thinking skills

In this webinar I will be focussing on some of the reasons why thinking is not always built into language classes and some of the things that teachers can do to encourage their learners to think more critically and more effectively. I will refer, among other things, to the place of textbooks, the importance of questions and questioning, the value of language awareness work and the inner world of learners.

Vol. 4 Issue 19 – ELTWO Research Paper: ‘Reading What’s Beyond the Textbooks: Documentary Films as Student Projects in College Reading Courses’ by Alejandro S. Bernardo

This paper discusses how useful documentaries are in teaching college reading courses.

Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Video: Speaking Up: The Origins of Language

Dr. Gustafson has been teaching at Villanova University for the past 23 years. He offers classes in political anthropology, Latin American politics and international relations. His research interests focus on the same areas.

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 18

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#18 | April 30, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Book Of The Week: ‘Interact’ by Bob Jones & David Coulson . Webinar: Dealing with challenging learners . About.com Video: Vocabulary for Business Letters . Video: Language and the Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn . BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Using poems to develop productive skills… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 18

Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Article: ‘Top 7 Strategies to Deliver Great Presentations’ by Ann Logsdon

Kenneth Beare, About.com ESL Guide, has posted an informative article titled “Graphic Organizers in ESL”.

Vol. 4 Issue 18 – ELTWO Research Paper: Using Blogs to Practice Grammar Editing Skills’ by Christopher Harwood

This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students.

Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Research Paper: ‘In Search of Swaraj in ELT Class-rooms: Translation, Indian Literatures and English’ by Tushar Vyas

Away from ELT theories propounded by the western theorists, the paper aims at studying the scenario of English language teaching in Gujarat and India. While the paper emphasizes the need for English language, it addresses issues related to learner, learning, content and culture and searches for alternatives of culturally loaded English literature taught in Indian class-rooms by the name of English language learning.