Category: Volume 6 Issue 3

ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Dear readers, We are extremely happy to present the third issue of the ELTWeekly newsletter. Do share the contents of this newsletter with your colleagues. Here you go: Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3

Article: ‘Language is Power’ by Dharmendra Sheth

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Language is power. Everyone knows that. Or ought to, at any rate. We often see some professionals more successful than others, not only because of their competence in their field of work, but also their command of language, whether it is written or spoken, their mother tongue… Continue reading Article: ‘Language is Power’ by Dharmendra Sheth

Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn L. Abbott

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Although considerable research has examined the use of literature in the second language (L2) classroom, there has been less investigation into the integration of learners’ personal stories in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Following Wajnryb’s (2003) categorizations of story as language learning, genre, and… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn L. Abbott

Research Paper: ‘The Reliability of the OWLS Written Expression Scale with ESL Kindergarten Students’by Gina L. Harrison, Keira C. Ogle & Megan Keilty

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] A reliability analysis was conducted on the Written Expression Scale from the Oral and Written Language Scales, (OWLS, Carrow-Woolfolk, 1996), with 68 ESL and 56 non-ESL kindergarten students. Interrater and internal consistency estimates for the Written Expression Scale were examined separately for each language group. Despite lower… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Reliability of the OWLS Written Expression Scale with ESL Kindergarten Students’by Gina L. Harrison, Keira C. Ogle & Megan Keilty

Video: Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our… Continue reading Video: Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley

Video: Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] English language learning is so multi-faceted that experts describe a “heterogeneous language class” as a class with more than one student. Ability, needs, background, age, and psychological make-up are just some of the variables among learners. Preparing different tasks for students at different levels is not always… Continue reading Video: Communicative Grammar for Multi-Level English Language Learners

Seminar: ‘Theorizing Movements: Literary, Social And Cultural’, MSU-Vadodara, India, March 24-255

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] The Department Of English, Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda is organizing UGC SAP DRS – II National Seminar ‘Theorizing Movements: Literary, Social And Cultural’ on March 24-25, 2014. Seminar note issued by the department. In the 1970s and 80s, India experienced a surge of political activism that… Continue reading Seminar: ‘Theorizing Movements: Literary, Social And Cultural’, MSU-Vadodara, India, March 24-255