Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Article: Technology is starting to change language-learning

THE teacher who corrects your correspondent’s awful Mandarin is soft-spoken, authoritative and far away. Thanks to Skype, you can have face-to-face lessons with native speakers of more or less any language without stirring from your chair. Technology may one day make language-learning redundant (see article); meanwhile, it makes it easier.

Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Webinar: Let’s Share: Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom, January 25

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 OUP team is hosting a webinar Friday, January 25, 2013. The webinar is on ‘Let’s Share: Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom’. Would you like to bring technology into your English class? Not sure how to start? Incorporating even a small amount of technology… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Webinar: Let’s Share: Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom, January 25

Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Webinar: Social Networking and ELT Pedagogy, January 17

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 OUP team is hosting a webinar Thursday, January 17, 2013. The webinar is on ‘Social Networking and ELT Pedagogy’. Social networking helps students get more English practice, make English-speaking friends, and find better jobs in the future. But is there any evidence that social networking… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Webinar: Social Networking and ELT Pedagogy, January 17

Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Article: ‘Don’t Let Perfectionism Silence You!’ by Eric Roth

Some English students make learning English even more difficult by expecting themselves to speak “perfect”, with “no accent” just like ” a real native English speaker.” May I suggest that this noble goal is both very difficult to achieve – especially for adults – and often even unwise.

Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Symposium: Alternative Pedagogies in the English Language & Communication Classroom, Singapore – May 27-29, 2013

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore, invites colleagues from the world over to participate in its fourth international symposium for English language teachers. This symposium combines classroom-based research paper presentations, workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions, and colloquia to give presenters and… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Symposium: Alternative Pedagogies in the English Language & Communication Classroom, Singapore – May 27-29, 2013

Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Conference: Drama Translation in the Age of Globalisation: Paradoxes and Paradigms, UK – March 6, 2013

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#1 | January 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The reflexion on drama translation resonates with the theme of ‘Memory, Text and Place’ identified by the University of Salford as one of the strategic interdisciplinary themes. The proposed symposium is expected to be of particular interest to researchers and practitioners within the field of… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Conference: Drama Translation in the Age of Globalisation: Paradoxes and Paradigms, UK – March 6, 2013

Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Event: 2nd Regional Symposium on Language, Literature and Translation, Bahrain – March 27-28

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#1 | January 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 The Department of English Language & Literature is delighted to announce its second regional symposium on language, literature and translation. SYMPOSIUM THEMES Our symposium this year will, as previously, represent an eclectic mix of theoretical and pedagogical research within the three branches of language, translation… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Event: 2nd Regional Symposium on Language, Literature and Translation, Bahrain – March 27-28