Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions [Video] 10 Fresh Role play Ideas for General English Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning Q: Skills For Success Question Time! Answers From ELT Teachers Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers Future directions in ELT: where are we headed [Video] Improve your… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 10 | May 2021
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Future directions in ELT: where are we headed [Video]
Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions [Video]
Whether your class discussions are online or off, hand signals enable students to engage in multiple ways.
Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers
Edutopia contributor Marissa King has shared Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers. Each year as the weather warms and the school year ends, the stack of books on my bedside table gets taller. This year, my book list wrestles with many of the looming issues exacerbated or illuminated by Covid-19, including racial equity, the ways schools… Continue reading Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers
Improve your English through Reading
Here is a useful article published by Josef Essberger on English Club. Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work… Continue reading Improve your English through Reading
10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English
BusyTeacher team has shared 10 fresh role play ideas for general English teaching. There are two ways a role play can go: scripted and non-scripted. With a scripted role play, the teacher might use an example in a text book. This is a good idea for a warm up exercise, by getting everyone to split up into pairs and allow… Continue reading 10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English
Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning
Maija Kozlova has published an article ‘Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning’ on the Cambridge English blog. She says, “It is not uncommon for English language lessons to favour communication over accuracy: real life is nothing like a classroom! In real-life situations, when you make a mistake in… Continue reading Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning
ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 4 | February 2021
Scott Thornbury – What’s the latest method? Language Variety by Nick Shepherd Content based instruction in teacher education: re-shaping pre-service teachers’ beliefs about language teaching [Article] Going beyond us and them: exploring the pronoun use of professionalising English language teachers in East Asia [Article] 3 Tips to Remember When English Language Learners Struggle Inference Worksheets… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 4 | February 2021
Scott Thornbury – What’s the latest method?
Watch Scott Thornbury’s talk from our Better Learning Conference in July, where he discusses what he believes constitutes a ‘good teaching method’.
Language Variety by Nick Shepherd
Language variety comes in several different forms. In these notes, I will talk about four. First, there are the national varieties. Australian, American, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, New Zealand, South African, Indian and Jamaican English (and there are more) are all recognisably different from each other. It’s worth remembering that the main difference is in… Continue reading Language Variety by Nick Shepherd