[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Integrating Technology to Improve Student Comprehension and Production (Video) Learner Language: Tools for Teachers (Video) Don’t Get Tongue Tied: 7 Surefire Steps for Creating Your Own Awesome Pronunciation Lessons (Busy Teacher) One Activity to Help Students Use Present Perfect and Simple Past –… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19
Category: Volume 7 Issue 19
Integrating Technology to Improve Student Comprehension and Production (Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] The New School presents a conversation on integrating technology to improve student comprehension as a part of the Master degree program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at The New School(http://www.newschool.edu/matesol). Motivating today’s tech savvy students is challenging. Blended learning keeps… Continue reading Integrating Technology to Improve Student Comprehension and Production (Video)
Learner Language: Tools for Teachers (Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Learner language is the constantly changing ability students have to communicate as they learn a new language. It provides an index of students progress, allowing teachers to determine how to best educate them. By analyzing examples of learner language, students develop skills to… Continue reading Learner Language: Tools for Teachers (Video)
Don’t Get Tongue Tied: 7 Surefire Steps for Creating Your Own Awesome Pronunciation Lessons (Busy Teacher)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Perfect pronunciation – every ESL student’s goal and no one’s achievement. It is rare for any ESL student to have perfect pronunciation, and some would say it’s actually wrong to expect it of them. But no matter your view on that issue, the… Continue reading Don’t Get Tongue Tied: 7 Surefire Steps for Creating Your Own Awesome Pronunciation Lessons (Busy Teacher)
One Activity to Help Students Use Present Perfect and Simple Past – from the Grammar and Beyond Archives (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] In conversation, we often move from general statements to more detailed information. “Have you seen Frozen?” “Yeah – I saw it last week. It was great.” These types of conversations provide a natural context for students to practice the differences between the present… Continue reading One Activity to Help Students Use Present Perfect and Simple Past – from the Grammar and Beyond Archives (Cambridge Conversations)
Webinar: ‘The ear of the beholder’: helping learners understand different accents, November 18
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] The use of English as an international lingua franca means learners will be exposed to a wide variety of accents, both native and non-native. How can teachers prepare them to cope with such diversity? This workshop features practical tasks, informed by relevant theory,… Continue reading Webinar: ‘The ear of the beholder’: helping learners understand different accents, November 18
De-stress your classroom: stress management and well-being for teachers and students (OUP Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 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… Continue reading De-stress your classroom: stress management and well-being for teachers and students (OUP Blog)
How to learn 30 languages (BBC)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] David Robson says, “Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. First German, then Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Croatian, Mandarin and Thai – they’ve barely spoken one language before the conversation seamlessly melds into… Continue reading How to learn 30 languages (BBC)