Category: ELT Articles and Research Papers

Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘The Impact of a Curricular Innovation on Prospective EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards ICT Integration into Language Instruction’ by Hismanoglu, Murat

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Research Paper Abstract This paper investigates whether the new EFL teacher training curriculum provides an efficient ICTtraining or not through both a quantitative and a partially qualitative research methodology. One hundred twenty-four prospective EFL teachers participated in this study and the results of a series of… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘The Impact of a Curricular Innovation on Prospective EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards ICT Integration into Language Instruction’ by Hismanoglu, Murat

Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘Language and Literature Interface: Recovery Aspects in Poetry’ by D. Murali Manohar

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 This paper is written and submitted by Dr.D.Murali Manohar, Head and Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Introduction: English language has a particular syntactic structure. If we follow Noam Chomsky who has theorized a fixed pattern of sentences in his book Syntactic Structures (1957) such as NP+VP… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘Language and Literature Interface: Recovery Aspects in Poetry’ by D. Murali Manohar

Vol. 5 Issue 13 – 10 Popular ‘EnglishTeachingDaily’ Posts

The 10th Annual Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, taking place July 8-9th at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, will center around the theme “Trend to Blend: Lessons from the Field” which reflects a renewed interest in blended learning while highlighting the significance of research and proven effective practices of the past decade in guiding our future.

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 12

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#12 | April 1, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 BEC Teachers’ Competition 2013 The Secrets of Being a Good English Teacher (BridgeTEFL Blog) The creative potential of storytelling in EFL Amity University’s First International ELT Conference on ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘How’: ELT In The Global Context, May 18 & 19, 2013 2nd Annual International Conference… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 12

ELTIS and ELTWeekly’s Research Paper Writing Competition

Very Important Note: If you have any query regarding the research paper writing competition, please send an email to info@eltweekly.com. Please do not contact ELTIS or the Chimayo Press. Hello Everyone, We would like to thank you all for your positive response to our research paper writing competition email. This competition is brought to you… Continue reading ELTIS and ELTWeekly’s Research Paper Writing Competition

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 11

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#11 | March 25, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 ELTIS and ELTWeekly’s Research Paper Writing Competition Article: ‘Teaching of English to rural students through games’ by T. Bhaskar David Video: Facilitating Multilevel Classrooms Research Paper: ‘Readers Theatre: Improving Oral Proficiency in a Japanese University EFL Course’ by Patrick NG & Esther Boucher-Yip Video: Pete… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 11

Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Article: ‘Indian Education System and English Language Teaching’ by Akshay Shingare & Padmavat Nirmala Shivram

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#11 | March 25, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Abstract English is mostly taught in India as a Second language. But As a Student, it was found that maximum schools and college students are considering English as a subject not a language. And this is the main reasons of errors in English for Indian… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Article: ‘Indian Education System and English Language Teaching’ by Akshay Shingare & Padmavat Nirmala Shivram

Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Research Paper: ‘Readers Theatre: Improving Oral Proficiency in a Japanese University EFL Course’ by Patrick NG & Esther Boucher-Yip

Improving oral proficiency in the EFL classroom is usually a major goal for most EFL instructors. One effective approach in teaching oral skills is the use of drama called Readers Theatre (RT). It is a presentational performance based on principles and techniques of oral interpretation which seeks to entertain, instruct and persuade (Adams, 2003).

Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Research Paper: ‘Using Blogs to Practice Grammar Editing Skills’ by Christopher Harwood

This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students. To begin, the idea that blogging encourages learner autonomy by facilitating the practice and negotiation of meaning of ‘comprehensible output’ (Swain, 1995) is discussed.