Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Article: 'How to Get a TEFL Job in South Korea' by Matthew Clark

We’ve seen teachers in Korea who swear by their public school jobs and we’ve seen teachers who say they’d never teach in anything other than a private school (hagwons/kindergartens) in Korea. For the public school positions, the bar has been raised in terms of the qualifications and experience of the teachers accepted.

Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Symposium: 'Literary London: The Ages of Dickens and Victoria', Oxford and Cambridge Club, London, December 15–17

The symposium will entertain papers written on subjects of literature, culture, arts, religion, capitalism, public education and of the Dickensian era through the Victoria Age. The Age of Dickens and the Age of Victoria, were, combined possibly the most dymanmic century ever to exist in the English speaking world.

Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Book Review – Coulmas, F. Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices. Cambridge: USA, 2005

This book was written essentially to handle the concept of ‘choice’ and its effect on speakers’ linguistic determination. It elaborates upon the perception that language adoption is related to human society and its members and is influenced by space, time variation, age, gender and culture. The author has exhibited the interconnection of the choice of language with how, what, and when people would speak. In addition, it aims to shed light on how, within the environments and communities in which people are living, ‘societal factors’ integrate unconsciously, sometimes compulsorily, with their original language, as they are living in a single unified circle and each factor can affect the other.

Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Symposium on 'Continuing Professional Development for English Language Teachers and Trainers',Gujarat – India, November 22

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#46 | November 12, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 For more information and registration, please visit www.waymadedu.org or email Rakesh Ranjan (rakeshranjan123@hotmail.com).

Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Research Paper: 'The effects of computer on language learning and teaching' by Dr. Fatemeh Alipanahi

The purpose of this study was to discuss the effectiveness of using computer on language teaching and language learning. This research was conducted using freshmen university students. The results of the study indicated that computer assisted instruction is an effective method of delivering information literacy skills Instruction. Students were able to select an appropriate database for their topic and navigate through, select, and print information that supported their focus questions with minimal involvement on the part of the teacher. These findings may also be useful for considering the likely effects of current teaching practices, subject-by-subject, level-by-level, and pedagogy-by pedagogy. A fuller treatment of the research literature on differential computer use practices will be provided in a later draft.

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#45 | November 5, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: Teaching Action Words with Charades – ESL, EFL, TEFL Conference: International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom, January 18-19, Jaipur, India Article: ‘How to Stimulate Conversation in the ESL Classroom’ by Lenore Holditch Conference: Web Technologies in ELT Classrooms – Evaluating Current &… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 45

Vol. 4 Issue 45 – FYI: Find Teaching Jobs with Teach Away

Teaching abroad through Teach Away, a global teacher placement organization, gives educators access to a wide variety of teaching jobs, educational administration jobs and international teaching programs within public and private schools overseas. Teach Away’s extensive international teaching programs include teaching jobs with Ministries of Education, private international schools, colleges, universities, and private ESL schools.

Vol. 4 Issue 45 – Conference: International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom, January 18-19, Jaipur, India

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.