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Tunisia launches English language teaching reform project – Middle East Online Tunisian Ministry of Education signs MoU with British Council for huge English language teaching project. By Mamoon Alabbasi – LONDON The Tunisian Ministry of Education and Training signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Council in London Tuesday, to prepare for a… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#6, Worldwide ELT news

*** ESL Library *** The ESL Library offers language teachers from all over the world access to thousands of printableflashcards and hundreds of ready-made lesson plans for the classroom.  The site was originally known as ESL-Images.com, but changed its name to the ESL Library in March 2007. ESL-Images.com started in 2002, and grew to be one of the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#6, Useful ELT resources

Here is the video of the week for the sixth issue of ELTWeekly: Repetition in English Language Teaching In this video Author Scott Thornbury is talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching. More information on methods in ELT is available here: www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology.

Using Dictionaries by Tarun Patel Try to give the students each an English-English dictionary. Make sure they know how to use it. If not, teach them how. Encourage them to refer to their dictionary whenever appropriate during the lesson, though they should try to guess the meaning from the context first where possible. In the classroom… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#6, Tip of the week: Using Dictionaries

Reading Aloud by Tarun Patel During your ELT session pick a student and ask him/her to read the instructions for your activities for that particular session. e.g. ‘Nilu, please read the instructions for Activity X for us’. And yes, don’t forget to pick a different student each time. Why read aloud? 1. It saves you… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Tip of the week: Reading Aloud

Here is the video of the week for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly: In this video Dafne Gonzalez provides information on using podcasts and voice emails for ELT. This workshop was held for teacher training in ICT. An event sponsored by the BC in Merida, Venezuela. Don’t forget to leave a commend after watching the video… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Video of the week: Podcasts and Voice emails

Here’s the featured article for the fifth issue of ELTWeekly: Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities by  Bhaskar Pandya Learning Disabilities Defined: In a Language Class, a teacher often finds that all the students, including exceptional students have their own unique and individual set of learning strengths, weaknesses, and needs. It is for the teacher… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Featured article: Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities

***   ESLgold.com   *** ESLgold.com provides teachers with thousands of ideas and materials for your classes and students. It offers lesson plans, handouts or new ideas for teaching English. ESLgold offers tons of resources for both the ESL and EFL environment. It saves hours of preparation time. ESLgold is a virtual library of English teaching materials that you can adapt to fit your individual… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Useful ELT resources