Book of the week: CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has emerged since the millennium as a major trend in education. Written by Do Coyle, Philip Hood and David Marsh and drawing on their experience of CLIL in secondary schools, primary schools and English language schools across Europe, this book gives a comprehensive overview of CLIL. It summarises the… Continue reading Book of the week: CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)

ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 3

Book of the week: Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading Video: How is Social Media Transforming the Future of Education? Video: Pape Samb: Linking Education with Entrepreneurship Video: Kiran Bir Sethi: Not by Chance, but by Design! Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 1 Article: Turning the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 3

Book of the week: Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading

This publication highlights the need for test developers to provide clear explanations of the ability constructs which underpin tests offered in the public domain. An explanation is increasingly required or if the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. The book demonstates the application of… Continue reading Book of the week: Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading

Video: How is Social Media Transforming the Future of Education?

As technology advances, traditional methods of learning and instruction are being challenged. Can we learn a complex subject such as science by watching a video on social media? Can social media become the future medium of learning? In this session, we explore the answers to these questions with Derek Muller, the founder of Vertiasium YouTube… Continue reading Video: How is Social Media Transforming the Future of Education?

Video: Pape Samb: Linking Education with Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is one of the solutions for developing self-sustainable communities, women and youth-led initiatives in developing countries. But, how can we teach to be an entrepreneur? Pape Samb is a social entrepreneur specialized in international development. He is the chairman, founder and designer of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN), a youth-run and led network… Continue reading Video: Pape Samb: Linking Education with Entrepreneurship

Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 1

Last year, for my Masters in Education at the University of Cambridge, I carried out a research project exploring the reading strategies that children with English as an Additional Language (EAL), and monolingual children with English as a first language, use in a paired reading task. Motivating my research was a recent report I read,… Continue reading Article: The Development of Young Learners’ Reading Skills – Part 1

Article: Turning the Community Into a Classroom

When city planners in Portland, Oregon, were looking for ideas to make public spaces more inviting to youths across the region, they turned right to the source. Tyler White, a junior at De La Salle North Catholic High School, teamed up with a diverse group of students from several area schools to research and develop… Continue reading Article: Turning the Community Into a Classroom

Article: 6 Simple Ideas to Motivate Your Students using Linked Language Learning

These days, I live and work in Ireland. Near my home, is Newgrange – a huge mound of rock and earth that’s over 5,000 years old. At dawn, on the shortest day of the year, everyone gathers to see the sun’s first light shine along a passage and light up a chamber in the mound.… Continue reading Article: 6 Simple Ideas to Motivate Your Students using Linked Language Learning

Article: Extensive Reading and Language Learning

Extensive reading is based on the well-established premise that we learn to read by reading. This is true for learning to read our first language as well as foreign languages. In teaching foreign language reading, an extensive reading approach allows students to read, read, and read some more. When EFL students read extensively, they become… Continue reading Article: Extensive Reading and Language Learning