Category: ELTWeekly Issue#36

ELTWeekly Issue#36 Contents

– Word of the Week: plumply • PLUMP-lee – Video: The London School of English – Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya – Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia – Research Article: ‘The Use of L1 in Teaching English’ by Daisy N. – Free eBook: ELA Manual – Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language – Blog of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#36 Contents

#36, Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Crystal, an author, lecturer, and BBC broadcaster on language, here approaches English with the same combination of scholarly seriousness and inviting visual presentation that made his Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (LJ 5/1/88) so successful. This large, lively, and lavishly illustrated… Continue reading #36, Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

#36, Blog of the Week: huffenglish.com

Hi friends, huffenglish.com is the blog of the week for issue #36.

Dana Huff runs huffenglish.com. Dana teaches 9-12th grade English and a 10th grade Writing Seminar at the Weber School, a private Jewish high school in the Atlanta metro-area. She has been teaching since 1997; She taught middle school Language Arts and Journalism for two years and pre-K for one year and all the rest have been high school English.

#36, Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia

Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.(Webster dictionary)

The national centre for cultural competence defines culture as an” integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to the succeeding generation.(Good,Sockalingam,Brown&Jones,2000)

#36, Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

Hi friends, today we have with us Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya, a dynamic English Language Teacher working with H M Patel Institute of English Training & Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar – Gujarat as a Reader. On his credit Dr. Bhattacharya has several research papers focusing on English Literature and use of ICT in ELT. He has conducted… Continue reading #36, Interview with Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

#36, Research Article: ‘The Use of L1 in Teaching English’ by Ms Daisy

There is no rule that you should never use L1 in English lessons, nor on the other hand is there any excuse for using L1 most of the time. Like many other teaching strategies, the use of L1 involves rapid on-your-feet decision making: is it worth switching to L1 at this point? Or would it be better to stay with English? We should finally free ourselves from the misconceptions and try to appreciate the existing alliance between the L1 and L2. Our ultimate aim should be to have students who are proficient L2 users rather than deficient L1 speakers.