Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms By Michaela Wyman Colombo and Dana Furbush Book Details Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc (November 12, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1412959659 ISBN-13: 978-1412959650 Price: $38.65 Book Description ‘Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms‘ provides… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Book of the week: Teaching English Language Learners
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ELTWeekly Issue #20, Word of the week: otiose
otiose • OH-shee-ohss 1 : producing no useful result : futile 2 : being at leisure : idle 3 : lacking use or effect : functionless Example Sentence: “Half the streets are cobbled and half wide, empty, modern highways at whose pretentious crossings an occasional rickshaw waits for the otiose traffic lights to change to green.” To know… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #20, Word of the week: otiose
ELTWeekly Issue #20, Quote of the week
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.