‘Rainy Dinot School Jaabor Mon Naathaake, Kintu Nogole Midday Meal Miss Karu-je…’ (We don’t feel like going to school on a rainy day, but if we don’t go we miss the midday meal) by Mahananda Pathak, PhD participant (ELT), English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, India. Abstract This paper reports an exploratory study to… Continue reading #66, Research Paper: ‘Rainy Dinot School Jaabor Mon Naathaake, Kintu Nogole Midday Meal Miss Karu-je…’ by Mahananda Pathak
Category: ELT Articles and Research Papers
#66, Article: ‘Three Deficiencies of English Teachers in Vocabulary Teaching’ By Katherine Lee
Three Deficiencies of English Teachers in Vocabulary Teaching By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Katherine_Lee]Katherine Lee There are three main deficiencies that English teachers are prone to making in the process of vocabulary teaching which would be bad for the learning of English. They are: isolation from the context, neglecting the new words in reading, and lacking creativity while giving… Continue reading #66, Article: ‘Three Deficiencies of English Teachers in Vocabulary Teaching’ By Katherine Lee
ELTWeekly Issue#65
ELT Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 13, Peer Observation in Teaching Practices Word of the Week: Action research Book Review: ‘English and Communication Skills for Students of Science and Engineering’ by Dr. S. P. Dhanavel Article: ‘Teaching English Language to Beginners’ by Mako Fisher Article: ‘Allow Reading Aloud to Feel Proud Article:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#65
#65, Article: ‘Mastering Listening as a Non Verbal Communication Skill: An Approach to enhance Communication skills’ by Dr. Sunita Agarwal
This article is submitted by Dr. Sunita Agarwal, Assistant Professor, , University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. People often focus on their speaking ability believing that good speaking equals good communication. The ability to speak well is a necessary component to successful communication but the ability to listen is equally important. Most of us do not realize the importance of… Continue reading #65, Article: ‘Mastering Listening as a Non Verbal Communication Skill: An Approach to enhance Communication skills’ by Dr. Sunita Agarwal
#65, Article: ‘Teaching English Language to Beginners’ by Mako Fisher
Young students especially, have short attention spans and quickly lose concentration so in order to keep lesson momentum and the student interested in the topic at hand, break the lesson time down into ten minute module blocks. For young students or absolute beginners, start with the alphabet and numbers. Lesson 1 for example could be… Continue reading #65, Article: ‘Teaching English Language to Beginners’ by Mako Fisher
#65, Article: ‘Allow Reading Aloud to Feel Proud
ALLOW ‘READING ALOUD’ TO FEEL PROUD *Dr. G.A. Ghanshyam Head, Department of English, Govt. M.L.Shukla College, Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) India. Email: gagshyam@gmail.com Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact – it is silence which isolates. – Thomas Mann Speech, the first form of communication came much earlier than the written… Continue reading #65, Article: ‘Allow Reading Aloud to Feel Proud
ELTWeekly Issue#64
Video: Middle English: Languages of the World News-1: Take notes by texting News-2: Dispatch: Learning ‘Globish’ Research Paper: ‘Patterns of the Iranian Advanced Learners’ Problems with English Collocations’ by Abbas Ali Zarei Article: ICT in ELT: Using BBC Learning English Content in ELT, Part 2 Article: ‘English Language Teaching – How to Use MindMaps’ by… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#64
#64, Article: ICT in ELT: Using BBC Learning English Content in ELT, Part 2
In the first part of this article, I have given a general introduction to the experiment I carried out with the students of Pharmacy at CHARUSAT. This week, I am focusing on the vocabulary learning process I adopted with the help of BBC Learning English website and the learning outcome at the end of the… Continue reading #64, Article: ICT in ELT: Using BBC Learning English Content in ELT, Part 2
#64, ELT Article: Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom
The following excerpt has been retrieved from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/stirrers-settlers-primary-classroom Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir’ and when to ‘settle’ children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on… Continue reading #64, ELT Article: Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom
#64, ELT Research Paper: ‘Patterns of the Iranian Advanced Learners’ Problems with English Collocations’ by Abbas Ali Zarei
Abstract Collocations are a pervasive feature of many languages and English seems to be particularly rich in such multi-word lexemes. They have not been a major focus of teaching and research, however, despite the fact that learners have serious problems with the production of idiomatically correct language . The present study , therefore, aimed at… Continue reading #64, ELT Research Paper: ‘Patterns of the Iranian Advanced Learners’ Problems with English Collocations’ by Abbas Ali Zarei