ELTWeekly Issue#22 – ELTWeekly

ELTWeekly Issue #22, Word of the week: gravitate

gravitate • GRAV-uh-tayt • verb 1 : to move under the influence of gravitation 2 a : to move toward something * b : to be drawn or attracted especially by natural inclination Example: Left to their own devices in a department store, children will naturally gravitate toward the toy aisle. To know more about the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #22, Word of the week: gravitate

ELTWeekly Issue #22, Quote of the week

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” – Oscar Wilde

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT news

Vision of a bilingual society within reach MALAY is my mother tongue, the language of home and family, the language in which the most tender of feelings are expressed, the tongue with which the harshest of emotions are spewed! My first two years of formal learning was in a Malay primary school in Rasah, Seremban,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT events

Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Disability, Nottingham Trent University, October 27 Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners to showcase practice and to show how research ideas and outcomes can be mainstreamed. It will introduce a wider audience to key findings and products from research and will… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Book of the week: Pathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language LearnersPathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

Pathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language LearnersPathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners By Ellen Curtin EDITORIAL REVIEWS From the Back Cover BCC for Curtin, Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners ISBN-10: 013513059X ISBN-13: 9780135130599 This book is for student teachers, experienced teachers new to English Language Learners, beginning… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Book of the week: Pathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language LearnersPathways to Teaching Series: Practical Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Article: Developing Good Speaking Skills

Developing Good Speaking Skills By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi The aim of spoken English is to enable students to communicate in the target language. It is important to: (i) expose the learners to maximum use of language. (ii) help them to see how language functions in different situations.(iii) help them to internalize the rules of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Article: Developing Good Speaking Skills

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Article: ELT Jargon June 2009

ELT Jargon June 2009 By Alex Case behaviourism- the idea that the kids not being naughty is about all you can expect from a kindergarten English lesson Communication Accommodation Theory- the discredited idea that host families in the UK actually speak to the students who are staying with them communicative strategies- ways students can avoid… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Article: ELT Jargon June 2009

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Research paper: EFL Writing: Product and Process

EFL Writing: Product and Process By Gabrielatos, Costas This paper presents a cyclical framework of teaching procedures for a comprehensive English-as-a-Foreign Language writing program. It begins by providing examples of Greek students’ writing and identifying common programs. Next, it outlines two aspects of good writing: product (language, layout and organization, relevance to the task, regard… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Research paper: EFL Writing: Product and Process

ELTWeekly Issue#22, Research Paper by Mohammad Hassan Hosseini

Infusion of Emerging Online Technologies into ELT: The Need of the Hour By Seyed Mohammad Hassan Hosseini* mhhosseini2002@gmail.com Abstract Today’s world context of the Cyber Age, which is characterised by ever-growing technological revolutions in the ongoing scenario of globalisation, has increased the value of English language, the language of the virtual world or the Second… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#22, Research Paper by Mohammad Hassan Hosseini