ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 1

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 1 | January 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Edtech Resolutions for the New (School) Year – Edutopia Using tablets in the EFL classroom: Why & How (OUP ELT Blog) Raymond Murphy interview 30 years of Grammar in Use June 2015 (Video) Top 10 Time Fillers For Your Classroom – BusyTeacher Pedagogical reasoning… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 1

ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 2

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 2 | January 12, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] News: Students Will Boost the Global Digital English Language Learning Market by 2019 Video: How is ICT changing the way teachers teach? Video: 7 Skills students need for their future Video: Monique Markoff on blended learning and the future of education Research Paper:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 2

Research Paper: ‘Incorporating Collocation Teaching in a Reading-Writing Program’ by Yang Ying & Jiang Jingyi

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 2 | January 12, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Abstract This paper discusses vocabulary teaching in tertiary institutions in China and points out the importance of learning collocation in an English as a foreign language context. The authors propose that the teaching of collocation should be incorporated into any standard reading-writing program… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Incorporating Collocation Teaching in a Reading-Writing Program’ by Yang Ying & Jiang Jingyi

International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching (TILT 2014), Chennai, November 14-15, 2014

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 20 | August 25, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching TILT ’14 in Association with IEEE With Special Focus on Teacher Cognition and Language Education 14th & 15th November 2014 www.tilt2014.com Organized by Department of English, Sathyabama University,  Chennai, India www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in About the conference TILT… Continue reading International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Language Teaching (TILT 2014), Chennai, November 14-15, 2014

‘English Language Teaching in ICT Age’ by Shibu Simon

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 19 | August 18, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] This article has been submitted for publication by Professor (Dr) Shibu Simon, National Defence Academy (Pune).  Relevance of English in ICT Age As the world is in transition, so is English language itself taking new forms. English has changed substantially in the 1500… Continue reading ‘English Language Teaching in ICT Age’ by Shibu Simon

ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 6

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 6 | March 3, 2014] Research Paper: ‘Vocabulary Development during Read-Alouds: Examining the Instructional Sequence’ by Karen J. Kindle Research Paper: ‘Listening to Learn: Boosting Vocabulary with Interactive Activities’ by Joshu Cohen Video: Total Physical Response (TPR) Video: Introducing the Oxford Test of English Video: Five Communicative Language Teaching Methods Video: Library… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 6

Research Paper: ‘Vocabulary Development during Read-Alouds: Examining the Instructional Sequence’ by Karen J. Kindle

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 6 | March 3, 2014] Reading aloud to children is a recommended practice in early childhood and primary-grade classrooms that is purported to enhance vocabulary growth. General guidelines can be found in the literature, but practitioners often rely on conventional wisdom and their own instincts to embed vocabulary instruction into their read-alouds.… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Vocabulary Development during Read-Alouds: Examining the Instructional Sequence’ by Karen J. Kindle

Research Paper: ‘Listening to Learn: Boosting Vocabulary with Interactive Activities’ by Joshu Cohen

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 6 | March 3, 2014] Despite being one of our most important and most often used modalities, listening is an area of language instruction that is often overlooked by teachers and researchers alike as fertile ground for the enhancement of students’ vocabulary knowledge. For low-level learners, especially those not in full control… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Listening to Learn: Boosting Vocabulary with Interactive Activities’ by Joshu Cohen

ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 5

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 5 | February 24, 2014] Five top technology tools for the English classroom (from Guardian) Video: Google Scholar for Scholarly Research International Language Conference (ILC) 2014, Malaysia, June 4-6, 2014 Article: ‘Gender differences that appear from a Self-Determination Theory survey of JHS students’ by David Ockert Video: How Technology is Reshaping Education,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 5

Research Paper: ‘Two Dimensions of Teacher Knowledge: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching’ – Devon Woods & Hamide Çakır

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The interconnected conceptual areas of teacher knowledge and teacher beliefs (included by some authors under the rubric of teacher cognition) have been debated in the field of language education intensively for the last two decades, during which time the terminology used in the discussions has… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘Two Dimensions of Teacher Knowledge: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching’ – Devon Woods & Hamide Çakır