[ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 1 | January 2, 2017 | ISSN 0975-3036] A Linguistic Analysis of Common Grammar Errors in Writing due to First Language Interference: A Case of First Year Engineering Gujarati ESL Learners by Dr. Kiran Chauhan Assistant Professor of English, Government Engineering College, Surat Abstract This paper reports a study aimed to investigate… Continue reading ‘A Linguistic Analysis of Common Grammar Errors in Writing due to First Language Interference: A Case of First Year Engineering Gujarati ESL Learners’ by Dr. Kiran Chauhan
Category: ELTWeekly Volume 9
‘Developing Soft Skills among Indian Engineering Graduates: Problems and Solutions’ – Kavita Tyagi & Priti Vyas
ELTWeekly Vol. 9 | Issue 9 | July 2017 Abstract The world has changed over the last century, so has the world of work, where employers are highly concerned with the skills of young labour market entrants as they are facing difficulties in filling vacant positions. Their difficulty in finding the skilled candidates stems from two… Continue reading ‘Developing Soft Skills among Indian Engineering Graduates: Problems and Solutions’ – Kavita Tyagi & Priti Vyas
ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 8
The Optimal Seating Plan? Letting Your Students Choose A Content-Rich Maker Project Authentic materials in the classroom: the advantages Five reasons why feedback may be the most important skill Focusing on vocabulary for academic writing Action research: how it can help your EFL classroom.
The Optimal Seating Plan? Letting Your Students Choose
How you arrange your seating can be an asset for differentiating instruction. Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City, California, uses different seating configurations for independent work, collaborative work, mini lessons, and large-group discussions. Through scaffolded guidance from their teachers—which includes a personalized learning platform, daily goals, and a culture of formative assessment—students understand… Continue reading The Optimal Seating Plan? Letting Your Students Choose
A Content-Rich Maker Project
My job as a makerspace teacher is to create learning experiences that apply what my awesome third-grade students are learning in other classes and help them develop collaboration skills and unleash their creativity. I recently had them create cardboard armor, a learning experience designed to meet the students’ needs to work more thoughtfully and to… Continue reading A Content-Rich Maker Project
Authentic materials in the classroom: the advantages
In the first part of a new series on authenticity, our regular contributor and Unlock author Lewis Lansford asks teachers to consider the advantages of using authentic materials in the ELT classroom. I asked a dozen teaching colleagues (identified below by their initials) for reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic materials in the classroom.
Five reasons why feedback may be the most important skill
Giving effective feedback is a vital part of communication, whether inside or outside the boardroom or classroom. Bob Dignen explains why. Different aspects of communication lay claim to being the most important: listening effectively or building trust, for example. Though these are important, the critical skill for me is feedback, both giving and getting. Effective… Continue reading Five reasons why feedback may be the most important skill
Focusing on vocabulary for academic writing
When it comes to helping students with academic vocabulary, the range of words and phrases they might encounter in the course of their academic studies is huge and can be somewhat daunting. So when we were putting together the new Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practicebooks, we decided quite early on that the most useful area to… Continue reading Focusing on vocabulary for academic writing
Action research: how it can help your EFL classroom
A classic model of teacher development involves learning about the latest ideas on our practice, and applying them to our classrooms. Action Research takes the opposite approach. In this process we find out what happens in our own classrooms so that we can understand them better and so make better-informed teaching decisions. In other words,… Continue reading Action research: how it can help your EFL classroom
ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 7
Dr. John Zubizarreta on ‘Creative and active teaching and learning’ Pierre Pirard on ‘The 5 principles of highly effective teachers’ What We Lose With the Decline of Cursive Updating an Age-Old Class Activity 100 Teaching Tips: two tips on teacher talk Five top tips for teaching vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills 8 tips to help… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 7