[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] FYI: Get ‘Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction’ from a University of Pittsburgh Project Authenticity in TESOL The Undergraduate Lecture: Four Teaching Styles ‘Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities’, Spain, June 11-13 Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies ACPI-TESOL Convention 2014, Costa Rica, June… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8
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FYI: Get ‘Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction’ from a University of Pittsburgh Project
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library has hosted a collection of images to use in language classrooms. The project is called ‘Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction’. This images could be an excellent resource for teaching basic language functions such as ‘describing objects’. Here is one of the images… Continue reading FYI: Get ‘Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction’ from a University of Pittsburgh Project
Authenticity in TESOL
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] This lecture is intended for students who specialize in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and is delivered as part of the MA TESOL and MA TEFL courses. It carefully examines an important concept related to materials development for English language teaching –… Continue reading Authenticity in TESOL
The Undergraduate Lecture: Four Teaching Styles
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] The undergraduate lecture at an American university is characterized by a wide range of styles and presentation methods. This video shows four lecture prototypes of this range of styles. The dynamics of classroom management and material presentation are quite different. The four styles are 1) The Formalist,… Continue reading The Undergraduate Lecture: Four Teaching Styles
‘Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities’, Spain, June 11-13
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] The Humanities Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. Over the past eleven years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference will address a range of critically… Continue reading ‘Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities’, Spain, June 11-13
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to… Continue reading Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
ACPI-TESOL Convention 2014, Costa Rica, June 25-27
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014] ACPI-TESOL CONVENTION 2014 “How to Develop the Speaking Skill through Reading Comprehension” June 25th, 26th, and 27th 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. San José, Costa Rica Phone numbers: (506) 839318232226-5339/22273362/ E mail: amadririmo@hotmail.com / acpi_tesol@hotmail.com You may also visit the site www.acpi-tesol.com for furthur information.