Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11 Issue 20

Read Jason Anderson’s article titled Key concepts in ELT: reflection in ELT journal. Although discussion of reflective thought in education dates back at least to Dewey (e.g. Dewey 1933), it is only since the 1980s that the term ‘reflection’ has become prominent in discussion of practitioner, including teacher, development. Within English language teacher education, reflection is… Continue reading Key concepts in ELT: reflection

Watch this video featuring Marjorie Rosenberg to inspire yourself for experiments. In her marathon presentation, Marjorie shares a bunch of insights that are highly motivating.

BusyTeacher’s CLAUDIA PESCE has published an article on teaching passive voice. Students need to be as “active” as ever and fully engaged in their learning. But it is the teacher who must engage them. How do you get students actively engaged in learning something as tedious as the passive voice? With action, of course! By showing them… Continue reading How to Teach the Passive Voice – While Being Active!

The Cambridge English team has published an article on teaching socially distanced classroom. During lockdown, learners have had to be more self-sufficient, take responsibility for their learning, and manage their own time. They have had no choice but to work out problems on their own with no classmate and no teacher nearby to ask. As… Continue reading Teaching in the socially distanced classroom

Here is an article on Oxford Test Of English. “When I hand my students a certificate endorsed by the University of Oxford, it really is something amazing.” Dr Ahmad Khalil Abdelqader Awad, an English Language Instructor and 2020 Headway Scholar from Saudi Arabia, has seen firsthand how taking the Oxford Test of English has impacted… Continue reading Watching Students Find Success With The Oxford Test Of English

Read Mohammad Javad Ahmadian’s article titled Task repetition in ELT in ELT journal. A ‘task’ can be defined as a meaning-focused pedagogic activity in which learners need to rely on their linguistic and non-linguistic resources in order to achieve a communicative outcome (Ellis 2009a). Since the early 1980s, the notion of task has been widely… Continue reading Task repetition in ELT

At the heart of most sentences, there is a verb (the action), and before the verb, you have the subject (who does the action?). Sentences mostly have subjects (but see below, “more complicated” stuff), and they nearly always have verbs. But then what comes after the verb is more variable, and can be many different… Continue reading What follows the verb? by Nick Shepherd