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ELTWeekly Issue#70

Word of the week: Fossilization Video: TEFL Online Tutorial: Teaching English With Games Article: ‘Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks’ by Duncan M Article: ‘English is ‘Fun” by Sophia Jaychandran Article: ‘Which one: Persian, Farsi or Parsi?’ by Zohre Maleki, Alborz University, Iran.

#70, Article: ‘Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks’ by Duncan M

The term feedback can apply to a number of classroom situations and procedures, but here it refers to a range of techniques employed by the teacher to facilitate responses from the students to an exercise or task. Inevitably, teachers feel that the whole class needs and deserves to know the correct answer or response to… Continue reading #70, Article: ‘Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks’ by Duncan M

#70, Word of the week: Fossilization

Fossilization refers to the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot easily be corrected. Example Many advanced level learners who have Spanish as an L1 do not distinguish between ‘he’ and ‘she’. This could be a fossilized error. In the classroom Errors in general take time to correct but a fossilized error… Continue reading #70, Word of the week: Fossilization

#70, Article: ‘English is ‘Fun” by Sophia Jaychandran

English language in the present day context has undergone a whole lot of new dimensions and paradigms. This is clearly manifested in the manner in which the language that has been rather receptive and flexible to many inflexional changes. In my presentation, I wish to highlight some of the easy but rock-solid ways of acquiring… Continue reading #70, Article: ‘English is ‘Fun” by Sophia Jaychandran

#70, Article: ‘Which one: Persian, Farsi or Parsi?’ by Zohre Maleki, Alborz University, Iran

Introduction: In the past few years, there has been a tendency to replace the adjective “Persian” by “Farsi”. These discussions over the usage of Farsi in European languages has long existed among Iranians, especially Iranian immigrants. As usual, some agree and others disagree. The official language of Iran is sometimes called Farsi in English and… Continue reading #70, Article: ‘Which one: Persian, Farsi or Parsi?’ by Zohre Maleki, Alborz University, Iran

ELTWeekly Issue#69

Word of the week: Mechanical activities Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum Course Preview Article: ‘Teaching English As A Foreign Language – 7 Tips For Using Popular Movies’ by Larry M. Lynch Article: ‘Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?’ by Tessa Woodward Article: ‘ELT in India – Past and Present’ by… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#69

#69, Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum Course Preview

This video includes snippets from the following segments: * Components of Effective Instructional Delivery in ESL/ELD and Sheltered Instruction/SDAIE Featuring a classroom scene that demonstrates best practices from the English Learners Scaffolding Strategies Checklist * Contextual Factors in Second Language Acquisition Featuring a panel discussion, How is it that some English Learners acquire English more… Continue reading #69, Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum Course Preview

#69, Article: ‘Teaching English As A Foreign Language – 7 Tips For Using Popular Movies’ by Larry M. Lynch

Movies and Videos in the EFL Classroom If you’re looking to expand the role of movies and videos in your EFL classroom, what better way to expand the learners’ communicative skills, grammar and vocabulary than by using clips from popular movies? Try using these seven tips for stimulating learner motivation while enjoying a favored pastime… Continue reading #69, Article: ‘Teaching English As A Foreign Language – 7 Tips For Using Popular Movies’ by Larry M. Lynch

#69, Word of the week: Mechanical activities

Mechanical activities are activities learners do which are not meaningful but which may be necessary in order to have the tools to use language. The move away from mechanical to communicative activity has been emphasized and prioritized for many years. Example Learners thinking about the position of the tongue in the pronunciation of certain sounds,… Continue reading #69, Word of the week: Mechanical activities