Word of the week: Word stress Susan Ryan’s Tip: How to Use the Correct Syllable Stress Pattern Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 04, Pair and Group Work Research Article: ‘English At The Primary Level: Realities” by Mahananda Pathak Article: ‘Constructivist Pedagogy in ELT Classroom’ by Dr. S. K. Agrawal Article: ‘Video recorders… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#74
Category: ELTWeekly Issue#74
#74, Book of the week: ‘Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers’ by J. Michael O’Malley & Lorraine Valdez Pierce
This 268-page practical resource book familiarizes teachers, staff developers, and administrators with the latest thinking on alternatives to traditional assessment. It will prepare them to implement authentic assessment in the ESL/bilingual classroom and to incorporate it into instructional planning. Readers’ Voices Lexine Mainwaring “I have just completed a graduate course in Assessment for teachers of… Continue reading #74, Book of the week: ‘Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers’ by J. Michael O’Malley & Lorraine Valdez Pierce
#74, Article: ‘Video recorders in the classroom’ by Jamie Keddie
“I have just become an uncle! My new nephew Tomás is three weeks old today. Mummy and daddy live in Barcelona but his maternal grandparents and great granddad live in Scotland. As you can probably imagine then, Tomás is currently getting used to the mobile phones, Flip camcorders and other video recording devices that are… Continue reading #74, Article: ‘Video recorders in the classroom’ by Jamie Keddie
#74, Word of the week: Word stress
Word stress indicates which syllables are stressed – or emphasised – in a word. Example ‘Photograph’ has word stress Ooo (stress on the first syllable), ‘photographer’ has word stress oOoo (stress on the second syllable). In the classroom There are many ways to indicate word stress visually, including the method above, putting a line above… Continue reading #74, Word of the week: Word stress
#74, Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 04, Pair and Group Work
The focus in this module is on Pair and Group Work. Pair and Group Work incorporates principles and themes from the Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Learning theoretical frameworks. We will look at some real classroom examples, using Stella Ting-Toomey’s “describe, interpret, evaluate” process to analyze what is happening with pair and group work in these… Continue reading #74, Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 04, Pair and Group Work
#74, Research Article: ‘English At The Primary Level: Realities” by Mahananda Pathak
Mahananda Pathak is a doctoral student in The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He can be reached at mahanandap@gmail.com. Abstract This paper presents the methodologies that teachers in a remote village in Assam used to teach English to primary school students. The activities used by the teachers in these classes are not unique to… Continue reading #74, Research Article: ‘English At The Primary Level: Realities” by Mahananda Pathak
#74, Susan Ryan’s Tip: How to Use the Correct Syllable Stress Pattern
Stressing syllables correctly in spoken English is often an area of great difficulty for south Asian language speakers. Speakers of South Asian languages frequently place stress on the first syllable of a word. However, in spoken American and British English the stress or emphasis may fall on many different syllables.
#74, Research Article: ‘Constructivist Pedagogy in ELT Classroom’ by Dr. S. K. Agrawal
Dr. S. K. Agrawal works as an Associate Professor at the Dept. of English, JRNRV University, Udaipur – India. The term ‘constructivism’ refers both to the method of learning and nature of knowledge. It means the idea that individuals, through their interaction with the environment, construct their own knowledge. (Fosnot 1996; Steffe and Gale, 1995).… Continue reading #74, Research Article: ‘Constructivist Pedagogy in ELT Classroom’ by Dr. S. K. Agrawal