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Three Terrific English Language Teaching Movies Your Learners Will Love By Larry M. Lynch Dynamite English Language Learning Skills If you’re looking for ways to dynamite English language learning skills in your classroom, try using clips from popular and classic movies. It certainly works for me. My learners enjoy speaking practice far more using scenes… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Expert article: Three Terrific English Language Teaching Movies Your Learners Will Love

Teaching Workshop Series 2009 : The Teacher’s Tool Kit (Osaka), Osaka, February 22 Speaker: Setsuko Toyama, Kevin Churchley, Ritsuko Nakata, Kaj Schwermer Date: Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Osaka Venue: Mainichi Shinbun Bldg. B1 Oval Hall, 3-4-5 Umeda, Kita-Ku, Osaka Description: What shall I do next? Every teacher in the world has asked themselves this question at… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Worldwide ELT events

  The ELT book of the week for the ninth issue of ELTWeekly is: Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching by Diane Larsen-Freeman Book Details Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (May 11, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0194355748 ISBN-13: 978-0194355742 Price: $18.67 Editorial Reviews Book Description A fully revised and updated edition of this popular introduction to language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Book of the week: Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching

YourDictionary.com YourDictionary is a free online dictionary and much more. The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results for your word. Alternatively, you can browse the English dictionary alphabetically or by related terms to find meanings and synonyms. In addition, YourDictionary provides resources to help you find the best… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Cool ELT resources

With the issue#9 of ELTWeekly, we are adding one more component column “Research Paper”. This column will feature free, interesting and useful ELT research papers. The research paper for this issue is: English as the International Language of Research by John Swales, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Paper Abstract: The annual world output of research papers and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Research Paper: English as the International Language of Research

Here is the video of the week for the ninth issue of ELTWeekly: On Friday, November 16th 2007 Anaheim University’s Graduate School of Education launched a 3-year alliance with Seoul National University’s Foreign Language Education Research Institute for the purpose of improving English education in the country of Korea. World-renowned linguist Dr. David Nunan, President… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Video of the week: Grammar & Discourse

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” Benjamin Lee Whorf