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Is Technology Really Helping Us Teach Better?

Here’s a useful article from the OUP Eglish blog. We know that there are lots of opportunities from technology in ELT – but we also see examples of technology doing what we know isn’t good from a teaching point of view. How can we make sure technology is working for teachers, and that teachers are… Continue reading Is Technology Really Helping Us Teach Better?

ELTWeekly Volume 13, Issue 10 | June 2022

Experimenting with Affective Reading Skell: A Search Engine to Teach Writing Using Visuals with ELLs [Podcast] ELT Summit 2022 is Coming 60-Second Strategy: Stand-Up Meetings [Video] Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites Professionalism in English Language Teaching – Silvana Richardson [Video] Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought [PPT] Received Pronunciation old and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 13, Issue 10 | June 2022

Experimenting with Affective Reading

Here is an interesting article on Affective Reading. I’m currently taking an online course on Materials Development with NILE and can say that it has been one of the most eye-opening courses I’ve taken since COVID-19. One of the modules focussed on affective learning and, in particular, making reading more emotionally and congitively engaging. This… Continue reading Experimenting with Affective Reading

Skell: A Search Engine to Teach Writing

Here is a post from ‘A JOURNEY IN TEFL’ blog. SKELL is a simple tool that allows students and teachers of English to quickly check if a phrase or word is being used correctly.It is free. Simply type a word and press the button.Example sentences, collocations, and synonyms for the word you typed in the search… Continue reading Skell: A Search Engine to Teach Writing

Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites

Edutopia contributor Amie Weinberg has published an in-depth article on teaching students how to evaluate websites. Perceptive adults and savvy students know that saying something doesn’t make it a fact, and neither does publishing information on the internet. But how to know which websites are sharing accurate information? As middle and high school students conduct… Continue reading Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites

Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought [PPT]

BusyTeacher has published a new PowerPoint on ‘Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought’. This PowerPoint shows pictures made by people in the early 1950s and 1940s portraying how they thought the future might be. It’s good to practice “They thought that we would be able to fly one day.” People at… Continue reading Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought [PPT]