Category: ELTWeekly Volume 8

Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Whether you teach pre-school, young learners, teens or adults, the ability to make your classroom a place where creativity thrives is a crucial factor in motivating and engaging learners. This talk explores seven ways to promote creativity and illustrates each one with a range… Continue reading Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching talk as performance requires a different teaching strategy. Jones (1996:17) comments that: Initially, talk as performance needs to be prepared for and scaffolded in much the same way as written text, and many of the teaching strategies used to make understandings of written… Continue reading Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)

Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Supporting Spelling: strategies for helping weaker spellers’, March 29

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] About webinar For some students English spelling is a nightmare! Especially if their own language uses a different writing system. How can teachers help those learners see that English spelling is something they can master and teach them some strategies for improving their spelling?… Continue reading Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Supporting Spelling: strategies for helping weaker spellers’, March 29

Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Integrating video in our secondary classrooms’, March 17

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] About webinar Short video clips have become a huge part of our day-to-day communication on social media, from Facebook to Whatsapp. Teens and pre-teens are leading the trend in using video as a medium to communicate and express themselves. In this webinar we’ll be… Continue reading Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Integrating video in our secondary classrooms’, March 17

Vocabulary gap-fills: from testing _____ teaching (OUP ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The potential of gap-fills When it comes to vocabulary learning, gap-fills are everywhere. But do they have a place in communicative language learning? They are often criticized for being boring and for promoting only a passive knowledge of words. It is not unreasonable to… Continue reading Vocabulary gap-fills: from testing _____ teaching (OUP ELT Blog)

#IATEFL – Why invest in extensive reading? (OUP ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] What is extensive reading and how can it transform learning? The short answer is reading by choice and for pleasure but what does this mean in practice? The two comments above, reflecting on last year’s participation in OUP Italy’s Read On! class library project,… Continue reading #IATEFL – Why invest in extensive reading? (OUP ELT Blog)

ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video) Between language and folklore: “To hang out the broom” Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as interaction Student Autonomy, Compliance, and Intrinsic Motivation How English became English – and not Latin Bottom-up decoding: listening Questioning That Deepens Comprehension… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6

Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] In the first of a series of life skills for teachers videos, teacher training expert and author Emma-Sue Prince offers tips to help teachers organise their time, class and workload. Watch the video and download the accompanying ideas sheet for more tips to help… Continue reading Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video)

Collaborative Activities in Advanced Adult ESL Classes (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Effective interactive activities for advanced adult ESL learners provide multiple exposures to academic vocabulary, elicit their opinions and experiences, and develop their reading, research, and note-taking skills. In this webinar recording, Ventures author Dennis Johnson shares his experience of developing such activities, and demonstrate… Continue reading Collaborative Activities in Advanced Adult ESL Classes (Video)