ELTWeekly Issue#9, Worldwide ELT news

US ambassador pledges support to English language learning in Angola – portalangop.co.ao Luanda – The US ambassador to Angola, Dan Mozena, on Saturday in Luanda said that his diplomatic representation has an active programme for supporting the teaching of English language in this country, which includes the donation of learning material and the offer of scholarships. The… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#9, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#8, Worldwide ELT news

Helping English Language Learners in the Classroom, New Report Merit Software has just released a new report “ESL Reading: Strategies for Classroom Teaching.” The report addresses the challenges facing teachers when working with students from non-English-speaking homes. (PRWEB) February 2, 2009 — Merit Software has just released a new report “ESL Reading: Strategies for Classroom… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#8, Worldwide ELT events

The 4th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, July 2009, Lancaster, UK The Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistic and English Language, Lancaster University. The postgraduate conference aims to offer the opportunity for postgraduate students from various… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue #7 – Second Life and ELT

Dear Friends, The ELTWeekly team is here with the issue #7. This week we have got two articles from our own subscribers. Also the feedback that we have received, has strengthen us to be one of the excellent ELT resources online. You can read the feedback of ELTWeekly subscribers here: http://eltweekly.com/more/feedback/ Here are the contents of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #7 – Second Life and ELT

ELTWeekly Issue#7, Worldwide ELT news

Germany considers scrapping English lessons Germany is considering scrapping English classes for primary school children after a study showed no advantage in starting lessons at an early age. The country is among many in the world which adopted the mantra of ‘the earlier the better’ when it came to teaching pupils English. Poor marks in… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#7, Worldwide ELT news

ELTWeekly Issue#7, Worldwide ELT events

  Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education – 14th Internation Conference on Educatin, Brunei, Darussalam, May 21-24 Theme / Topic of event: Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education Day / Date: May 21-24 Place: Brunei, Darussalam More information:  Education encompasses a variety of worlds – home, school, university, the workplace and industry – situated within the national and… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#7, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue #5, Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities

Dear Friends, We are back with the fifth issue of ELTWeekly newsletter. Now we have crossed 300 subscribers 🙂 For this week the ELTWeekly newsletter is content packed with: – Quote of the week – Tip of the week: Reading aloud – Video of the week: Podcasts and Voice emails – Featured article: Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities – Subscriber space:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue #5, Teaching the Students with Learning Disabilities

ELTWeekly Issue#5, Worldwide ELT events

5TH NATIONAL VTTN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CONFERENCE Theme / Topic of event: Challenges and change in English Language Teaching Day / Date: January 16 and 17, 2009 Place: The Horison Hotel, 40 Cat Linh Street, Hanoi Fees:380,000 VND / $45.00 More information: Over the last decade, Vietnam has undergone phenomenal economic growth and now faces the challenge… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#5, Worldwide ELT events

ELTWeekly Issue#4, Video of the week: ESL Error Correction Techniques

Here is the video of the week for the fourth issue of ELTWeekly: ESL Error Correction Techniques In this video a teacher from Madrid explains the error correction techniques that he used in his ESL/EFL (English as a Second Language / English as a Foreign Language) classroom with some Spanish students.