Category: ELTWeekly Volume 7

Video: Participatory Learning – Powered By Technology

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] The future of learning is personal and participatory, and technology enables new strategies and systems for meeting students, and administrators where they are. This keynote presents the barriers and the necessary innovations for ensuring the future is bright. Karen Cator is the President and… Continue reading Video: Participatory Learning – Powered By Technology

When learners have a limited vocabulary range #1 (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] What are the key characteristics of this situation? Learners’ vocabulary development is still at the 3,000-word level. Learners lack knowledge of collocational patterns. Vocabulary development plays a vital role in making the transition from an intermediate to a more advanced level of language proficiency,… Continue reading When learners have a limited vocabulary range #1 (Cambridge Conversations)

Winning the Headway Scholarship – could you be next? (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Headway Scholarship 2015 winner from Argentina Every August just after the winter holidays, I’ve been experiencing this burning desire to explore what it is like to live, study or work in a foreign country. As a teacher and translator there came a point in… Continue reading Winning the Headway Scholarship – could you be next? (OUP Blog)

De-stress your classroom: stress management and well-being for teachers and students (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching and learning can be fun and energising. However, many teachers and students nowadays feel pressurised, stressed and de-motivated. Teachers all over the world seem to be faced with increasingly unrealistic expectations, scarce resources, widely diverse student needs as well as the continuing challenge… Continue reading De-stress your classroom: stress management and well-being for teachers and students (OUP Blog)

ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17 | September 21, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] BusyTeacher – Top 10 Websites for the ESL Teacher Video Series: Bringing ‘Life’ into the Classroom and the classroom to life Video: John Hughes on Integrating Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom Strategies for Teaching IELTS: Part One – Where to start? (OUP… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17

BusyTeacher – Top 10 Websites for the ESL Teacher

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17 | September 21, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] The longer you have been teaching, the thicker your files are getting, but it is never too soon or too late to add to your pool of resources. You may already be familiar with the following websites, or this might be your first… Continue reading BusyTeacher – Top 10 Websites for the ESL Teacher

Video: John Hughes on Integrating Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 17 | September 21, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] John Hughes, co-author of the ‘Life’ series, was the first of the presenters at the National Geographic Learning Online Conference 2014. John speaks on why bringing critical thinking into the English Language Classroom is so important.