Tag: ELT Newsletter

#37, Free eBook: Action Plan for Teachers

‘Action Plan for Teachers’ is a 44 page illustrated book on the subject of English Language Teaching. The book covers the topics of planning and preparing lessons, teaching methodology and classroom practice, using technology in the classroom, and also has ideas for and examples of practical activities for different stages of the lesson. Download this ebook… Continue reading #37, Free eBook: Action Plan for Teachers

#37, Book of the week: Internet English: Www-Based Communication Activities

Internet English: Www-Based Communication Activities by Christina Gitsaki & Richard P. Taylor Book Description “Internet English” helps students develop the skills to surf the Internet, while providing a structured framework to practise their conversation skills through communicative tasks. It can be used in traditional or computer-equipped classrooms.

#37, Interview with Dr. Ranganayaki Srinivas

If you love your learners, if you love teaching, everything else will be taken care of automatically. If you do not have this love but take up the profession for other reasons, no amount of training will make you a good teacher. If you find you do not have the necessary love for the profession, please find other ways of fulfilling your needs. You will thank yourself for this decision for years to come.

#37, Article: English Teacher: An Integral Entity of English Language by Aadhi Ramesh Babu

In every profession it is important to keep current with new ideas, methods, technologies, research findings etc. Teachers should study, and like all other professional people, should try and stay current. No doubt English is the most important language in the world; therefore having great English skills will bring numerous advantages to a teacher, especially keeping with the demands of the emerging global market where English is seen as a tool of progress and success.

ELTWeekly Issue#36 Contents

– Word of the Week: plumply • PLUMP-lee – Video: The London School of English – Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya – Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia – Research Article: ‘The Use of L1 in Teaching English’ by Daisy N. – Free eBook: ELA Manual – Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language – Blog of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#36 Contents

#36, Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Crystal, an author, lecturer, and BBC broadcaster on language, here approaches English with the same combination of scholarly seriousness and inviting visual presentation that made his Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (LJ 5/1/88) so successful. This large, lively, and lavishly illustrated… Continue reading #36, Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

#36, Blog of the Week: huffenglish.com

Hi friends, huffenglish.com is the blog of the week for issue #36.

Dana Huff runs huffenglish.com. Dana teaches 9-12th grade English and a 10th grade Writing Seminar at the Weber School, a private Jewish high school in the Atlanta metro-area. She has been teaching since 1997; She taught middle school Language Arts and Journalism for two years and pre-K for one year and all the rest have been high school English.

#36, Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia

Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.(Webster dictionary)

The national centre for cultural competence defines culture as an” integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to the succeeding generation.(Good,Sockalingam,Brown&Jones,2000)

#36, Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

Hi friends, today we have with us Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya, a dynamic English Language Teacher working with H M Patel Institute of English Training & Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar – Gujarat as a Reader. On his credit Dr. Bhattacharya has several research papers focusing on English Literature and use of ICT in ELT. He has conducted… Continue reading #36, Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya