Category: ELTWeekly Vol. 5

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 7

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#7 | February 25, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 VIDEOS Practising listening with teenagers How to Remember Vocabulary Teaching Vocabulary with Gradable Opposites Teaching Listening: Gist & Detail Teaching Grammar in Context CONFERENCES ‘Across and Beyond English Language – Linguistics, Literature, Didactics’, Durrës, Albania – April 5-6, 2013 ‘First International Conference on Bilingual Education… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue 7

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Webinar: The Keys to Success in Teaching English to Young Learners, April 24

How do you deal with the challenge of teaching Business English to people who are preparing, through their studies, to enter the global business environment? What kind of Business English do they need? Business communication skills are important, but studying business at degree level and beyond also requires learners to develop sophisticated reading and writing skills in order to deal with complex material on a wide range of topics, and to become familiar with key concepts and related vocabulary.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Webinar: Latest Trends in Student Language Assessment, May 22

How do you deal with the challenge of teaching Business English to people who are preparing, through their studies, to enter the global business environment? What kind of Business English do they need? Business communication skills are important, but studying business at degree level and beyond also requires learners to develop sophisticated reading and writing skills in order to deal with complex material on a wide range of topics, and to become familiar with key concepts and related vocabulary.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy’ by Vahid Aryadoust

Language self-appraisal (or self-assessment) is a process by which students evaluate their own language competence. This article describes the relationship between students’ self-appraisals and their performance on a measure of academic listening (AL). Following Aryadoust and Goh (2011), AL was defined as a multi-componential construct including cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, note-taking, rating input to other materials, knowledge of lecture structure, and memory and concentration.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Sentence Types: Students’ Perceptions and Productions’ by Alaa Al-Musalli and Ibtihaj Al-Harthi

Language self-appraisal (or self-assessment) is a process by which students evaluate their own language competence. This article describes the relationship between students’ self-appraisals and their performance on a measure of academic listening (AL). Following Aryadoust and Goh (2011), AL was defined as a multi-componential construct including cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, note-taking, rating input to other materials, knowledge of lecture structure, and memory and concentration.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Conference: ‘6th International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2013)’ May 17-18, 2013

6th International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2013) is an online conference organized by IOKSP, a professional organizer of high-quality academic events, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All submitted papers undergo a blind-review process before any decision is made.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Conference: ‘ECLL 2013 – The European Conference on Language Learning’ Brighton, United Kingdom – July 18-21, 2013

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Language Learning, to be held from July 18-21 2013, at the Brighton Thistle Hotel, Brighton, England.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Video: Teaching Listening: Gist & Detail

Listening skills are not passive! This teacher uses a sentence scramble and a true or false worksheet to encourage active listening of a teacher-made recording. In these ways, both the main ideas and supporting details are elicited.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Conference: ‘Across and Beyond English Language – Linguistics, Literature, Didactics’, Durrës, Albania – April 5-6, 2013

The conference will take place in central building of the University “Aleksandër Moisiu” Durrës, organized and supported by the English Language Department of the Faculty of Education at the University “Aleksandër Moisiu” Durrës.