Teaching a Foreign Language? Best Teach in the Accent of the Listener ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2010) — Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not in the ‘original’ accent of that language, shows a new study from the University of Haifa. The study was… Continue reading #51, News: Teaching a Foreign Language? Best Teach in the Accent of the Listener
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#50, News: Ker-pow! Cambridge literature centre is to study comics and blogs
Comics, computer games and Disney films have long been the bane of parents trying to encourage their offspring to develop a love of reading classic children’s books. Now academics at the University of Cambridge have given comic strips and saccharine movies cachet by subjecting them to scrutiny of a sort previously reserved for classics such… Continue reading #50, News: Ker-pow! Cambridge literature centre is to study comics and blogs
#49, News: Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ – BBC
Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust. A survey of 3,001 children aged nine to 16 found that 24% had their own blog and 82% sent text messages at least once a month. In addition 73% used instant messaging services… Continue reading #49, News: Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ – BBC
#48, News: Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure
Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world.
#36, Free eBook: ELA Manual
BBC’s Language Assistant manual was written as a guide and handbook for novice English language teachers taking their first steps into the classroom. It is packed with tips and useful ideas. There is also a Language Assistant website to accompany the book.
ELTWeekly Issue #25 Contents
– Quote of the week – Word of the week: desolate – Video: The History of the English Language – Worldwide ELT News – Worldwide ELT events – Book of the week: English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader – Article: Developing Effective Listening Skills – Article: Top tips for getting an EFL book published – Research paper: Four Good Reasons To… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #25 Contents
ELTWeekly Issue#25, Worldwide ELT news
Nick Seaton: School language teaching leaves children lost for words AS with almost everything else they’ve touched in education, the present Government has made a pig’s ear of foreign languages in schools. Little over a decade ago, French, German and Spanish were mainstream subjects. Now they hover on the fringes and are, literally, non-existent in… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#24, Worldwide ELT news
English as medium of instruction The English of Saudi university graduates is very poor. Since the labor market in the Kingdom largely depends on foreign manpower, English has necessarily become the language of business. Anyone who does not master English will be in a weak position when competing for a job. His or her chances… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#24, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT news
Vision of a bilingual society within reach MALAY is my mother tongue, the language of home and family, the language in which the most tender of feelings are expressed, the tongue with which the harshest of emotions are spewed! My first two years of formal learning was in a Malay primary school in Rasah, Seremban,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#21, Worldwide ELT news
Teach English as a language KUALA LUMPUR: Federation of National Writers’ Associations of Malaysia (Gapena) supports the teaching of English as a language in schools so long as this is not done at the expense of Bahasa Malaysia. Gapena representative Borhan Md Zain said the government should make subjects such as Malay Literature and English… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#21, Worldwide ELT news