The Effect of Explicit Instruction of Cognitive Strategies on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension performance By, Sima Shirdelpour, Islamic Azad University, Email: sintiash@yahoo.com Abstract From the perspective of education as a long life process, one of the main aims of the educator is to help students cope with self-directed, autonomous learning. Teaching students to read effectively unaided would seem to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Subscriber space: Research paper By Sima Shirdelpour of Islamic Azad University
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ELTWeekly Issue#19, Article: Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) developed some two decades ago as a response against the diverse approaches to second/foreign language teaching practiced in the last forty to fifty years, especially in the Structural (Grammatical) Approach. CLT is a language teaching programme focusing on learners’ ability to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Article: Communicative Language Teaching in India By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
Feldman is Howard County Teacher of the Year Kimberly Feldman had no idea what was happening when Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin and other top-ranking school officials entered her class at Oakland Mills High School with a bouquet of flowers. Her students were thrilled by a mock trial lesson, which her principal said is indicative of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#18 Contents
Click Here to DOWNLOAD ELTWeekly Issue#18 in PDF Format – Quote of the week – Worldwide ELT news – Video of the week: Anecdotes in the ELT classroom: Sue Kay & Vaughan Jones – Word of the week: extremophile – Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog – Request ELT Webinars – Article: Integration of Skills in English Language Teaching By… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18 Contents
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog
TEFLtastic with Alex Case Tefltastic is loaded with the variety of resources for the teacher of English. Alex Case has posted multiple blogs and articles. He covers almost all the topics in relation to the teaching methodology. However, he has focused more on the linguistic areas useful in teaching English language. Apart from linguistics he… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #18, Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Word of the week: extremophile
extremophile • ik-STREE-muh-fyle – noun meaning: an organism that lives under extreme environmental conditions example: “Cold-loving extremophiles could show us what kinds of creatures might live … in parts of the solar system previously thought uninhabitable.” To know more about the word ‘extremophile’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.01.2009
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Request ELT Webinars
Dr. Ranganayaki Srinivas has launched the ‘Webinar Course Just For You’ program. She designs each webinar on a specific topic based on participants’ needs. Dr. Ranganayaki says, “What is the specific webinar course you are looking for? Post your questions on which I can conduct a webinar course specially for you. Vote for the questions submitted by others.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Request ELT Webinars
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Article: Integration of Skills in English Language Teaching By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
Integration of Skills in English Language Teaching By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi Integration of skills is a very important practice in the teaching of any language. No skill can be taught in isolation and segregation. There exists a deep, profound and inseparable connection between language use and the context in which it is entrenched and embedded.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Article: Integration of Skills in English Language Teaching By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Cool ELT resources
*** Teacher of English.com *** Teacher of English.com is the UK’s premiere online PowerPoint based GCSE English resources website for teaching English at KS2, KS3 and KS4 GCSE English. Teacher of English provides editable teaching resources, PowerPoint lesson plans and schemes of work for teachers of English Language and English Literature. All their resources are developed and produced… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Cool ELT resources
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Article: 15 ways of combining listening and reading By Alex Case
15 ways of combining listening and reading By Alex Case Copyright 2009 Alex Case/ TEFL.net, republished with permission. 1. Radio news Many sites that offer streaming or downloadable radio news also have a short text summarizing the story. Reading this before listening will make comprehension easier, especially if students discuss what they read and/ or think about… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Article: 15 ways of combining listening and reading By Alex Case