Category: ELT Videos

Teaching English the Fun Way: Beginning Class

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 10 | March 31, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] A comfortable classroom environment is paramount in classroom management and enhances academic achievement. A song that everybody likes sets a relaxing and pleasant tone. The class is democratic and students have a lot of say in how the class proceeds. The kids know the… Continue reading Teaching English the Fun Way: Beginning Class

Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 10 | March 31, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] English language learning is so multi-faceted that experts describe a “heterogeneous language class” as a class with more than one student. Ability, needs, background, age, and psychological make-up are just some of the variables among learners. Preparing different tasks for students at different levels… Continue reading Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners

Video: Reading Comprehension Strategies : Teaching English Grammar

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] It’s important to teach English grammar to promote growth, understanding and knowledge, and to improve writing performance, creativity and insight. Discover how English grammar skills can provide a tool for learning other languages with help from an English specialist and president of a theater group in this… Continue reading Video: Reading Comprehension Strategies : Teaching English Grammar

Authenticity in TESOL

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] This lecture is intended for students who specialize in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and is delivered as part of the MA TESOL and MA TEFL courses. It carefully examines an important concept related to materials development for English language teaching –… Continue reading Authenticity in TESOL

The Undergraduate Lecture: Four Teaching Styles

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] The undergraduate lecture at an American university is characterized by a wide range of styles and presentation methods. This video shows four lecture prototypes of this range of styles. The dynamics of classroom management and material presentation are quite different. The four styles are 1) The Formalist,… Continue reading The Undergraduate Lecture: Four Teaching Styles

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to… Continue reading Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 7

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 7 | March 10, 2014] 8th International ELT Research Conference: Innovative Approaches to Research in ELT, Turkey, May 15-17 The European Conference on Education 2014, UK, July 9-13 How schools are breaking down the language barrier for EAL students (Guardian) Teaching English Abroad: Answers to the Big Questions (Wall St. Cheat Sheet)… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 7