Category: ELTWeekly

5th International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2012) is an online conference organized by IOKSP, a professional organizer of high-quality academic events. All submitted papers undergo a blind-review process before any decision is made. Scientific committee members of IOLC 2012 comprises of university professors from around the globe.

Yıldız Technical University, School of Foreign Languages is hosting an international symposium to explore the scope of web applications in ELT classrooms. Emerging technologies herald a new era in teaching and learning, and the easy-to-use web apps are increasingly being incorporated into classroom settings. Used with care and adequate professional training, these web tools can enhance some of our traditional teaching and learning practices.

English Language Teaching poses many challenges to the language teacher. The diversity of the students’ socio-cultural background, motivation and interest, multiple intelligences and learning styles, differing personalities and behaviour patterns, makes the language teaching task a particularly intricate one. The interests of individual learners vary: they are motivated to learn English to meet their academic, professional or personal needs and may want to focus exclusively on developing a proficiency in writing or a fluency in speech. In order to meet the needs and requirements of individual learners, language teachers need to choose between prescribed language teaching methods and alternative methods keeping in view the wider sociocultural context in which the instruction takes place. In the modern technological age, the transformation in the teaching methodology with the adoption of online teaching resources and multimedia in the language classroom has led to the need for more careful planning and preparation on the part of the teacher. Combined with these are the academic guidelines which specify the expected level of language proficiency of students after they have taken a particular English language course, the integration of the role of English as both a social skill and as a professional requirement, and the pressure on the learner to develop all four language skills simultaneously. This conference aims to focus on the emerging trends and methodologies in English language teaching which can empower the language class room and enable the learner to use English adeptly and effectively.