Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11

[ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 1 | February 18, 2019 | ISSN 0975-3036] The BusyTeacher team has published an article on ‘7 Pop Culture Elements You Can Use to Engage Your Students’. Claudia Pesce says, “Viral videos, snarky memes, and a cat that is so grumpy it puts all other crabby felines to shame, these are… Continue reading 7 Pop Culture Elements You Can Use to Engage Your Students

[ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 1 | February 18, 2019 | ISSN 0975-3036] Edutopia team has published a useful video on ‘What’s Metacognition—and Why Does it Matter?’. A quick introduction to metacognition, plus seven questions to help your students become more independent learners. Watch the video by visiting following link. What’s Metacognition—and Why Does it Matter?… Continue reading What’s Metacognition—and Why Does it Matter? [Video]

[ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 1 | February 18, 2019 | ISSN 0975-3036] When students make “I notice” and “I wonder” comments on course content, teachers can see what they know—and what they need to learn. Edutopia team has published a useful video on ‘Boosting Engagement With Notices and Wonders’. This video is part of our How… Continue reading Boosting Engagement With Notices and Wonders [Video]

[ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 1 | February 18, 2019 | ISSN 0975-3036] The Cambridge University ELT team has published an article on grammar teaching. Niall Curry says, “In the first of a series of Grammar blog posts, our Senior ELT Research Manager, Niall Curry, lets us in on what goes on behind the scenes to… Continue reading Grammar: discovering what to teach and how to teach it

[ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 1 | February 18 | ISSN 0975-3036] The OUP ELT blog team’s article on placing the students in pairs is a must read. OUP team says, “The suggestions are organised into two sets. The first set of suggestions gets students to form a line which the teacher then divides up into pairs… Continue reading 25 ways of randomly placing students into pairs or groups