Four Good Reasons To Use Literature in the Primary School ELT By Ghosn, Irma K. Abstract This paper presents four arguments in favor of integrating literature into English as a foreign language (EFL) classes for grade school children, particularly in cases where academic language proficiency is the ultimate goal of instruction but where English exposure and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Research paper: Four Good Reasons To Use Literature in the Primary School ELT
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ELTWeekly Issue#25, Article: Top tips for getting an EFL book published
Top tips for getting an EFL book published By Alex Case Do not bother sending book proposals. The traditional “send a book proposal, wait for review, proposal accepted if you are lucky, negotiate and then start writing” process to work anymore. It is dead. If you send a book proposal in, you might be very… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Article: Top tips for getting an EFL book published
ELTWeekly Issue#25, Article: Developing Effective Listening Skills
Developing Effective Listening Skills By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi Good listening is one of the most significant skills to have in today’s multifaceted world. Families need good listening to face complicated stresses together. Corporate employees need it to solve complicated problems quickly and stay competitive. Students need it to understand complex and composite issues in their… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Article: Developing Effective Listening Skills
ELTWeekly Issue#25, Book of the week: English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader
English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader By C. Candlin Book Description English Language Teaching in its Social Context presents four major principles of English language teaching: * focusing on the roles played by teachers and learners * recognizing the individuality of language learners * supporting teachers in the provision of active guidance for… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Book of the week: English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader
ELTWeekly Issue#25, Worldwide ELT events
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING (ICLLT-1), Padang, October 16 – 17 As a world-wide language, the great need for the teaching-learning of Ednglish as an L2 and/or an FL has been increasing significantly. However, the teaching-learning process of English as an FL in Indonesia has not been fairly successful yet. Natural, cultural,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#25, Worldwide ELT events
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