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#18, Worldwide ELT news

*** British Council’s first English language teaching centre soon *** Chennai , Apr 24 The British Council will soon open its first English language teaching Centre in Chennai , offering language courses for professional and personal development, specially tailored to needs of Indian learners. The centre would initially open in three classrooms in the Regus Citi Centre, while existing premises on Anna Salai would be renovated, a British Council press release said here today.   The Council is equipped to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news

The place of English language in India today In the mid-1980s, when I was studying journalism in the US, a question I was often asked was: “How do you speak English so well?” My reply was simple and honest. I would start by patiently explaining how I had studied English not just as a language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news