ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 28

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#28 | August 5, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Conference: KOTESOL International Conference 2013, Korea, October 2013 Book Review: ‘Manto Selected Short Stories’ translated by Aatish Taseer Research Paper: Integrating Culture with English Language Education’ by Dr Anand Mahanand Article: ‘Teaching English As A Second Language: A How To Guide’ by Chris Harmen Article:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 28

Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Conference: KOTESOL International Conference 2013, Korea, October 2013

The KOTESOL 2013 International Conference is a forum for educators to share their ideas, innovations, experience, and research findings in English language teaching (ELT). This year, the Conference will be exploring the actual and the desired roles of classroom practice in informing ELT and SLA theory.

Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Book Review: ‘Manto Selected Short Stories’ translated by Aatish Taseer

Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.

Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Article: ‘Teaching English As A Second Language: A How To Guide’ by Chris Harmen

Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.

Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Article: ‘Simple and Effective Warmers When Teaching English’ by Natasha Mason

Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.

Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Research Paper: Integrating Culture with English Language Education’ by Dr Anand Mahanand

English language practitioners earlier emphasized on developing four skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing in order to develop learners’ proficiency in English. It had been thought that if learners developed proficiency in these four skills then they could use the language effectively. In addition to these four skills, they added vocabulary and grammar components. But they generally ignored another important aspect that has assumed importance in the process of language learning as well as language use. That component is culture. In recent years language experts have recognized its importance in language teaching. For this reason, it has been termed as the fifth skill for language learners that “enhances students’ over all learning experience”(Kramsch 1993 p. 1). The role of culture was over looked earlier by practitioners as language educators as language education was thought to be a process of mastering the linguistic codes. It was mostly confined to language skills plus vocabulary, grammar and punctuation.