ELTWeekly Issue#23, Worldwide ELT news

Banning language teaching rules will leave us tongue-tied I went house-hunting last week. I drove off in pursuit of that elusive item, the perfect place to live. I was following directions printed on the estate agent’s glossy brochure. “Turn left,” it said, “then bare right.” Obedience could have led to arrest for indecency. Wouldn’t that… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#23, Worldwide ELT news

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#20, Worldwide ELT news

Gujrati medium teachers shifted back AHMEDABAD: The state education department recently issued orders that nine surplus Gujarati medium teachers who were posted in English mediumschools for over a decade be transferred back to Gujarati medium schools. This directive comes close on the heels of the TOI report that the pathetic state of English medium students who constantly… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Worldwide ELT news