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ELTWeekly Issue#14, Research paper: The Attitudes of ELT Students towards the Internet in Doing Their Homework

The Attitudes of ELT Students towards the Internet in Doing Their Homework By Atamturk, Nurdan Abstract Educational technology has been gaining importance in English language teaching since with the help of technological tools teaching and learning became more effective. This study which is descriptive in nature, is designed to investigate the present attitudes of ELT students… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#14, Research paper: The Attitudes of ELT Students towards the Internet in Doing Their Homework

ELTWeekly Issue#14, Book of the week: Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom

Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom: Terrific Teaching Tips, Games, Mini-Books & More to Help New Students from Every Nation Build Basic English Vocabulary and Feel Welcome! By Kama Einhorn Book Description Meets TESOL Standards! Great ideas for assessing your ESL student¹s needs, communicating with the child¹s family, and more! Plus vocabulary-building… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#14, Book of the week: Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom

ELTWeekly Issue#14, Cool ELT resources

Cambridge Messages Attractive and innovative, Messages is the perfect course to motivate lower-secondary students. Teacher and students are rewarded by immediate results with every ‘Step’. Level 1 assumes students have studied English at primary school, but gives full coverage of all basic language areas. The free workbook Audio CD has been expanded to include a… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#14, Cool ELT resources

ELTWeekly Issue#14, Expert article: Throw Away the Course Book and Adapt Authentic Materials

English Language Teachers: Throw Away the Course Book and Adapt Authentic Materials By Larry M. Lynch Use Authentic Materials? If asked why they rely heavily on course books for English language teaching, among a variety of other reasons, one that emerges is the seeming unsuitability of available authentic materials. Principal reasons cited for this “unsuitability”… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#14, Expert article: Throw Away the Course Book and Adapt Authentic Materials

ELTWeekly Issue #14, Word of the week: metathesis

metathesis • muh-TATH-uh-sis • noun a : a change of place or condition b : transposition of two phonemes in a word c : a chemical reaction in which different kinds of molecules exchange parts to form other kinds of molecules. Example: When I listened to the recording of the child’s speech, I noticed several… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #14, Word of the week: metathesis

ELTWeekly Issue#13, Tip of the week: Five ideas to improve listening

Five ideas to improve listening By Tarun Patel Listening is the most important receptive (and learning) skill for English language students. An ability to listen and interpret is a fundamental communicative ability. Teaching listening involves training in some ‘enabling skills’ — perception of sounds, stress, intonation patterns, accents, attitudes and so on, as well as… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#13, Tip of the week: Five ideas to improve listening

ELTWeekly Issue#13, Worldwide ELT news

53 different languages at a school – thesun.co.uk Lingos range from Ghana’s Akan Twi-Fante to Russian at Nelson Primary in East Ham, East London. The largest language group is Sri Lankan Tamil (127) with English second (115). Head Tim Benson said: “It makes things more difficult. We aren’t on a level playing field with other schools.”… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#13, Worldwide ELT news