Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11 Issue 21

English Literature Summit 2020 – Key Speakers and Call for Papers Three prepositions: across, along, through by Nick Shepherd ​Teaching More Than Just (sic.) English​ – Rakesh Bhanot | ELT Summit 2020 Translanguaging [Article] 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking How to Make the Most of Student Feedback During Distance Learning Overcoming the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 21 | November 2020

The ISEL is hosting English Literature Summit 2020 virtual conference on December 12-13, 2020. The following names have been announced for the plenary talks so far: Hsu-Ming Teo – a literary novelist and cultural historian based in the English Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Asha Varadharajan – Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University in Canada.… Continue reading English Literature Summit 2020 – Key Speakers and Call for Papers

When you teach students, they learn not ‘more-or-less’ what you teach them, but ‘more’ AND ‘less’. (Henry Widdowson) Language teachers are much more than mere purveyors of lexical items and the rules of grammar. For example, in addition to playing roles such as surrogate parents, social workers, administrators, walking encyclopedias et al, they (wittingly or… Continue reading ​Teaching More Than Just (sic.) English​ – Rakesh Bhanot | ELT Summit 2020

Here is an article on ‘Translanguaging’ from Oxford ELT Journal. The origins of translanguaging lie in Welsh bilingual education in the 1980s (Lewis et al. 2012). ‘Trawsieithu’—a Welsh term coined by Cen Williams, and later translated into English as ‘translanguaging’—was constructed as a purposeful cross-curricular strategy for ‘the planned and systematic use of two languages… Continue reading Translanguaging [Article]

Use these BusyTeacher strategies to enable your students speak better. Many ESL teachers find that their students are timid speakers or reluctant to participate in class discussions. It’s only natural. After all, they are trying to talk in a language they are still working on learning. Still, silence can be deadly in the ESL classroom for your… Continue reading 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking

This Edutopia article will help you make the most out of your online education efforts. In my efforts to get more visibility into what is actually happening in my virtual classroom, I created new routines for gathering, analyzing, and using feedback. 5 IDEAS FOR USING FEEDBACK WELL THIS YEAR 1. Create feedback routines: In-person teaching gave… Continue reading How to Make the Most of Student Feedback During Distance Learning

Here is a useful article from Cambridge English blog. Monica Poulter explained how teachers can support mixed ability classes as learners move back to the classroom in her session at the Cambridge Live Experience. Challenges for English teachers The months ahead pose many challenges to learners and teachers as they go back to the physical classroom.… Continue reading Overcoming the challenges of teaching mixed ability children

Here is a useful article from OUP ELT Blog. Fast forward to the present day and we’re moving out of the ERT situation and gaining confidence in our online teaching. In this light, I asked a number of teachers around the world what advice they would now give for ensuring the smooth running of online… Continue reading Top 10 Tips To Help Your Online Lessons Run Smoothly!

Today I am talking about three words which are mostly used as prepositions or adverbial particles, and today they will be used as prepositions. For more on ‘used as’, see below, “more complicated” stuff). The three words are across, along and through, but before I talk about them, I want to talk about dimensions. Choice… Continue reading Three prepositions: across, along, through by Nick Shepherd