ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#108 | December 19 | ISSN 0975-3036 Adrian Underhill says, “I often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central arena of language work. But sometimes teachers say they have not been introduced to a basic method for… Continue reading #108, Article: Core activities for using the chart to integrate pronunciation
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#108, Article: Global English and the teaching of pronunciation
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#108 | December 19 | ISSN 0975-3036 The TE Editor says, “The emergence of so many different kinds (or ‘varieties’) of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of English. This article presents my research into the pronunciation of… Continue reading #108, Article: Global English and the teaching of pronunciation
ELTWeekly Issue#107
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#107 | December 11 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) – Video: ESL Teacher Training by Nick Mitchelmore – Video: ESL Teacher interview in Japan JET Program PT 1 – Event: National Seminar on ‘English Language Education in India: Theory and Practice’, January 23-25, Hyderabad – India – Article: Complete poetry resuscitation – Article: Rhythm, rhyme,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#107
#107, Article: Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#107 | December 11 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) David Heathfield says, “Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story creatively. If the storyteller allows, the listener can have a direct influence on the story as it unfolds. When… Continue reading #107, Article: Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling
#107, Article: Complete poetry resuscitation
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#107 | December 11 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) The TE Editor says, “A lot of teachers get the same look – the sigh, the rolling eye, the slump. “We’re going to be doing poetry in the next few classes”. You cringe through it, they cringe through it. I have been lucky… Continue reading #107, Article: Complete poetry resuscitation
#107, Video: ESL Teacher interview in Japan JET Program PT 1
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#107 | December 11 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) An in depth interview with an experienced English teacher for the JET program in Japan. There are alot of links and information sites out there but its nice to have a chat with someone who has done it and of course… Continue reading #107, Video: ESL Teacher interview in Japan JET Program PT 1
#107, Video: ESL Teacher Training by Nick Mitchelmore
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#107 | December 11 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) Nick Mitchelmore has 10 years of experience teaching in South Korea. He is also the creator of edcuational ESL Games and a close parter of ASK Now Inc.
ELTWeekly Issue#106
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#106 | December 5 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) Download Book: Perceptions and Strategies of Learning in English by Singapore Primary School Children with Dyslexia Article: Revising lexis: quality or quantity? Job: English as a Foreign Language Specialist at University Of Calgary Video: Lindsay Clandfield – Grammar… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#106
#106, Download Book: Perceptions and Strategies of Learning in English by Singapore Primary School Children with Dyslexia
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#106 | December 5 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) source: teachingenglish.org.uk Learners with dyslexia have difficulties in reading and writing. In Singapore there are about 20,000 primary and secondary school learners with dyslexia. This paper presents research findings on the perceptions and feelings of primary school learners with dyslexia in Singapore regarding their learning of school… Continue reading #106, Download Book: Perceptions and Strategies of Learning in English by Singapore Primary School Children with Dyslexia
#106, Article: Revising lexis: quality or quantity?
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#106 | December 5 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) source: teachingenglish.org.uk This article discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items. Introduction Sometime in the middle of the last century, Benjamin Whorf, famous for his contention that… Continue reading #106, Article: Revising lexis: quality or quantity?