Category: ELTWeekly Issue#61

ELTWeekly Issue#61

News: 94% primary students in India cannot recognise English Video: David Treuer – 2007 Heginbotham Lecture Series Article: ‘The scope of SLA’ by Mohammad Hashamdar Research Paper: ‘Learning about language learners’ learning styles’ by David Ockert Case Study: ‘Enhancing Cultural Role in Foreign Language Classroom: a Case Study of Malaysian International High Schools’ by Dr.… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#61

#61, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes

I consider the greatest problem facing me as a language teacher is knowing how to motivate my students: how to get them past the hurdle of seeing learning English as just another academic subject, to regarding it as developing a communication tool that will be useful for them throughout their lives. Over the last years… Continue reading #61, Article: Using web resources to create tasks with real outcomes

#61, News: 94% primary students in India cannot recognise English

“Ahmedabad: For 94% of the primary students in India, English is an alien language. And this is official. A study conducted by the Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) of the Planning Commission has revealed that 94 per cent of the students in primary schools across the country cannot recognise the English alphabets. This reality check is… Continue reading #61, News: 94% primary students in India cannot recognise English

#61, Video: David Treuer – 2007 Heginbotham Lecture Series

Award-winning author David Treuer was the speaker for the 2007 Possibilities Heginbotham Literary Lecture. The lecture hosted by the Department of English and Modern Languages was held in the Buetow Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Treuers third novel, The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006), was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington… Continue reading #61, Video: David Treuer – 2007 Heginbotham Lecture Series

#61, Case Study: ‘Enhancing Cultural Role in Foreign Language Classroom: a Case Study of Malaysian International High Schools’ by Dr. Khairi Al-Zubaidi

(This paper is submitted by  Dr.Khairi Obaid Al-Zubaidi, Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, (UTM)International Campus, Academy of Languages. khairi_alzubaidi@yahoo.com) Culture is an inseparable portion of language. Culture is the main source of input to foreign language learning. The culture of English as a foreign language is not well understood in some of our English classrooms, in spite of a lot… Continue reading #61, Case Study: ‘Enhancing Cultural Role in Foreign Language Classroom: a Case Study of Malaysian International High Schools’ by Dr. Khairi Al-Zubaidi

#61, Article: ‘The scope of SLA’ by Mohammad Hashamdar

(This article is submitted by Mohammad Hashamdar, PhD Student, Islamic Azad University-Science and Research Branch- Tehran- IRAN, E-mail: m_hashamdar@yahoo.com) Second Language Acquisition has two different senses to be distinguished. Ellis (2005) classified these two senses. He referred to the first one as the learning of another language after the acquisition of one’s mother tongue is completed. He… Continue reading #61, Article: ‘The scope of SLA’ by Mohammad Hashamdar