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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 31

 ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#31 | July 30, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: The power of English for development Cambridge ELT Interview with John Field Article: ‘Teaching English As Foreign Language in South Africa’ by Aparupa Patowary Video: Influence of the King James Bible on the English Language Webinar: Oxford’s ‘CLIL for Younger Learners’ Webinar, September 20… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 31

Vol. 4 Issue 31 – Article: Educating the Next Generation: Unconventional Teaching Methods Using Technology Applications

The traditional conception of a teacher leading a lesson with a piece of chalk, vigorously scratching formulas, themes or motifs across a chalkboard, is ingrained in most of our minds. We grew up in a classroom where knowledge came from two sources: the instructor and the textbook. Those may never change, but their ability to educate has been made easier with forward-thinking.

Vol. 4 Issue 31 – Research Article: ‘Silence Also Speaks: Nonverbal Communication in the Classroom’ by Dr. Shubha R. Mishra

Communication is one of the most important concepts of the 21st century. In a teaching learning situation, communication and all its related assumptions have drastically changed over the period of last two centuries. In the traditional classroom, teaching was through lecture method and the use of the chalk and the board. With the explosion of technology, the whole scenario has changed. The traditional teacher, who was respected only next to God, and was regarded as the final word, has now changed roles to a facilitator, who communicates his thoughts, ideas and knowledge, through many different ways. Those teachers, who use uses nonverbal communication and its multiple facets like expressions and body language, to make the teaching more interactive and interesting, are more popular, and are regarded more humane and accessible. In this changed scenario, nonverbal communication has gained a new dimension and importance in classroom teaching. Therefore the teacher’s awareness to the multiple ways of non verbal communication, its effects and significance has become crucial in the whole process of teaching and learning.

Vol. 4 Issue 31 – Article: ‘Teaching English As Foreign Language in South Africa’ by Aparupa Patowary

South Africa was primarily a Dutch colony and later taken up by the British. The country was plagued by racial and cultural conflicts but has conquered over its troubles to a large extent in the recent past. It is now a multi-cultural and a multi-lingual country with 11 official languages and only 8% of its’ population conversant in English. Economically, it has been doing very well and is striving to do better in the global world. Since communication is very important to further their development in world economy, the people in South Africa are educating themselves in today’s lingua franca, English.