LILA ’18 / V. International Linguistics and Language Studies Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions). Since 2014, more than two hundred presentations by scholars from different places of the world has been hosted by DAKAM’s LILA Conferences and three proceedings books have been published.… Continue reading LILA ’18 Conference, Istanbul, March 30-31, 2018
SOCIOINT 2018 Conference, Dubai, July 2-4, 2018
SOCIOINT 2018– 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES will be held in DUBAI (UAE), on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July 2018 is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics, independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and discuss issues concerning all fields of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities.… Continue reading SOCIOINT 2018 Conference, Dubai, July 2-4, 2018
Engaging content for your Business English lessons
What’s the point of talking about this? Because exploring a topic with your class that they are interested in and passionate about can spark some great conversations. Discussing content that students don’t want to engage with is, in contrast, nowhere near as valuable. In this post, Business English author John Hughes looks at the types of topics… Continue reading Engaging content for your Business English lessons
ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 3
Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018 Why should we teach phrasal verbs? Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording! Stephen Krashen at the 36th TESOL Greece… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 3
Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education
When people embark upon the journey to become a language teacher, they begin to face challenges to the beliefs they already have about language learning and teaching, beliefs that have to a large extent been formed by their own experience as language learners. During the language teacher education programme, there is an expectation that change… Continue reading Dr. John Macaliste on Challenges in language teacher education
Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition
Prof. Mitsutomi and Dr. Kirjavainen co-presented at the IAFOR Asian Conference on Language Learning 2014 (ACLL2014) in Osaka, Japan. For more information about the ACLL conference, please visit www.acll.iafor.org. Their Featured Presentation looks at the process of first and second language acquisition and introduces some of their latest findings in the course of doing their… Continue reading Marjo Mitsutomi & Minna Kirjavainen on First and Second Language Acquisition
Stephen Krashen at the 36th TESOL Greece International Convention
Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018
The Global Association of English Studies and the H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research are pleased to issue this expression of interest for the Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, a truly multi-disciplinary forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of various sub-disciplines of… Continue reading Conference: Third National Conference on Indian English : Concepts, Contexts and Pedagogy, Gujarat, February 2-3, 2018
Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording!
Are your students speaking confidently? Join ELT experts as they discuss teaching speaking live from a Cambridge college. Are we failing our language students when it comes to teaching speaking? Is there more we could be doing? Many students measure their progress in language learning through their confidence and ability to speak spontaneously when faced… Continue reading Let’s talk speaking: Watch the recording!
Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?
The Cambrige team has published a free white paper “Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?”. Sarah Laughran says, “Extensive reading is a useful practice that can manifest itself in different ways depending on the teacher and class, however it remains a relatively underused language teaching technique. Dr. Peter Watkins has created an Extensive reading in ELT… Continue reading Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?