The following video features information about the new Pearson Test of English Academic. The Pearson team says, “Pearson announces the new Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), an accurate and authentic measurement of English proficiency for non-native speakers. “
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#43, Research Paper: Intellectual Fashion in India: The Role of Euphemism, Neologism and Slang in Indian English
Intellectual Fashion in India: The Role of Euphemism, Neologism and Slang in Indian English By Dr.Asma Rizwan, Asst. Professor, People’s Institute of Management & Research, Bhopal. English like all language is not static. It is ever changing and adopting new words and style or let’s call it fashion. Global English has led to a crisis of terminology.… Continue reading #43, Research Paper: Intellectual Fashion in India: The Role of Euphemism, Neologism and Slang in Indian English
#42, eBook: Developments in the Training of Teachers of English
Developments in the Training of Teachers of English
#42, ELT Resource: ESL-Library.com
The ESL Library offers language teachers from all over the world access to thousands of printable flashcards and hundreds of ready-made lesson plans for the classroom. The site was originally known as ESL-Images.com, but changed its name to the ESL Library in March 2007.
#42, Article: Using the Holy Bible As an Authentic Language Learning Text
Using the Holy Bible As an Authentic Language Learning Text By Larry M. Lynch Foreign Language Learning There are a slew of commercial textbooks, guidebooks and all manner of language learning study aids when studying English as a foreign or second language. The same is true for most other main stream, major languages like French,… Continue reading #42, Article: Using the Holy Bible As an Authentic Language Learning Text
#42, Research Article: Technology, ELT and Literature Teaching
Teaching language and teaching literature both are the areas where many things we may find interconnected. Many a times literature can be a source of teaching and learning in Language area or vice versa language study material can help learners of literature to interpret various things in literature.
#42, Video-2: Motivating Young Learners
World renowned linguist Dr. David Nunan speaks on “Motivating Young Learners” at the Anaheim University Akio Morita Learning Center in Tokyo, Japan.
#42, Video-1: PTE Academic: Pearson’s vision of English learning
President of Pearson Language Tests, Mark Anderson, explains the role that PTE Academic plays in the continuous process of learning and Pearsons vision as a company in delivering a completely integrated experience for test takers which links their assessment with learning.
ELTWeekly Issue#41 Contents
eBook: English as an International Language ELT Resource: English To Go Video: David Crystal on English idioms by Shakespeare Book: ‘The Internet and the Language Classroom’ by Gavin Dudeney Research Article: ‘The English Language of Novices Interface the Native English Speakers in a Teaching Centre’ by Aadhi Ramesh Babu & A. Komuraiah Scribd Posters: ‘Student… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#41 Contents
#41, eBook: English as an International Language
This concise volume from 1978 is pre-‘World Englishes’ and before the acceptance of Kachru’s model of the inner, outer and expanding circles of English language use. Nevertheless, it is clear that the book’s authors were fully engaged with the diversity of English language use and the practical needs of learners. Mark Lester and others debate… Continue reading #41, eBook: English as an International Language