Happy New Year! To celebrate another successful year ahead of language learning, and to welcome you and your students back to class, we asked three of our former contributors Vanessa Esteves, Christopher Graham, and Julietta Schoenmann to devise a series of lesson plans and activity worksheets for your EFL classrooms. From adult through to primary,… Continue reading Article: Back to School Activities for your EFL Classroom
Category: ELTWeekly Volume 9
9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017
EDULEARN17, the 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on the on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of July, 2017. EDULEARN is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists and professionals from the educational sector. After 8 years, it has become a… Continue reading 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017
Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages
Try to imagine being an illiterate farmer living in extreme poverty in a remote rural village, without electricity and with very few visits from anyone outside your village. How could you learn to keep your family healthy or grow enough food to feed them? In 2007, Literacy Bridge was formed to understand this problem and… Continue reading Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages
Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education
Universities today are under an enormous amount of criticism and pressure: structures and pedagogical models developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, increasingly higher costs and rising demands for an educated work force in a changing and complex world. Minerva’s founder Ben Nelson talks about the origins of some of these problems, but also offers… Continue reading Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education
Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes
About the webinar On November 15, Grammar and Beyond author Dr. Randi Reppen hosted a webinar on integrating classroom grammar activities across all skill levels. The webinar focused on activities that can be used in the classroom for each major language skill: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Dr. Reppen opened the webinar with a discussion… Continue reading Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes
Book of the week: ‘The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching’ by Michael McCarthy
Book description A volume concerned with best practice in blended learning for language teaching. The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching makes the case that it is pedagogy, rather than technology, that should underpin the design of blended learning programmes. The book is organised into five sections: Connecting Theories and Blended Learning; Implications for… Continue reading Book of the week: ‘The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching’ by Michael McCarthy
Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language
Cambridge is publishing Scott Thornbury’s new book ‘About Language’ in March 2017. Book description Tasks for teachers of English that help to develop language awareness and invite consideration of the pedagogical implications and classroom applications. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, incorporating recent developments in language description, whilst keeping the organisation and structure of… Continue reading Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language
ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 1
[ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 1 | January 2, 2017 | ISSN 0975-3036] Super Grammar: Making practice perfect for young learners Education Research Highlights From 2016 WEBINAR: Using digital projects to raise teenagers’ global awareness, Januaey 17 Graham Hall on Writing Papers for Publication in a Refereed Journal Alison Smith on Making Stories and Storytelling Interactive Research… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 9, Issue 1
‘Education Research Highlights From 2016’ – Edutopia
Youki Terada says, “In 2016, we learned more about how teachers feel about their profession, from the reasons why they started teaching in the first place (#1) to why they leave (#6). We learned that science students do better when teachers share stories about the struggles scientists face instead of portraying them as geniuses (#3). We’re… Continue reading ‘Education Research Highlights From 2016’ – Edutopia
Webinar Replay: Super Grammar: Making practice perfect for young learners
Lauren Ward says, “For this professional development webinar, we were joined by Colin Sage, an ELT author, editor and teacher-trainer who specialises in Primary and pre-Primary learning. The webinar focused on grammar, using examples from the new Super Grammar practice books, beginning with an anecdote about a student trying to understand the world of… Continue reading Webinar Replay: Super Grammar: Making practice perfect for young learners