[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 1 | January 4, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Edtech Resolutions for the New (School) Year – Edutopia Using tablets in the EFL classroom: Why & How (OUP ELT Blog) Raymond Murphy interview 30 years of Grammar in Use June 2015 (Video) Top 10 Time Fillers For Your Classroom – BusyTeacher Pedagogical reasoning… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 1
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Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Book Review: ‘Manto Selected Short Stories’ translated by Aatish Taseer
Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.
Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Article: ‘Teaching English As A Second Language: A How To Guide’ by Chris Harmen
Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.
Vol. 5 Issue 28 – Article: ‘Simple and Effective Warmers When Teaching English’ by Natasha Mason
Warmers are a key ingredient to any successful English class. During a TEFL certificate course, you should be introduced to a range of warmers that you participate in but it’s easy to forget to do them once you get out there into the teaching world.
Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Eric Roth: Why We Wrote Compelling American Conversations for Intermediate American English Language Learners
Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation(CCE) is a new scheme of evaluation formulated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Minister of Human Resources Development and the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India for Classes IX and X which are affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. The main objective is to reduce the accumulated stress of board exams on the students and to introduce a more uniform and comprehensive pattern in education for the students all over the nation. It provides continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad based learning, covering every aspect of students’ development. CCE helps in enhancing students’ performance by identifying their learning difficulties at regular time intervals right from the commencement of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for improving their learning performance.
Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Bilingual Primary
Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation(CCE) is a new scheme of evaluation formulated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Minister of Human Resources Development and the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India for Classes IX and X which are affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. The main objective is to reduce the accumulated stress of board exams on the students and to introduce a more uniform and comprehensive pattern in education for the students all over the nation. It provides continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad based learning, covering every aspect of students’ development. CCE helps in enhancing students’ performance by identifying their learning difficulties at regular time intervals right from the commencement of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for improving their learning performance.
Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Video: How to integrate social media into your English language teaching
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#1 | January 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Kristin Sherman, co-author of OUP’s new adult English course Network, teaches one of the Get Connected lessons from the course book. These lessons use social networking themes to teach reading, writing, and speaking skills. The topic of this lesson is “Online Community Standards” (pages 112… Continue reading Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Video: How to integrate social media into your English language teaching
Vol. 4 Issue 43 – Article: 'Soft Skills – Indispensable for Success' by B.Shoba Rao
Today soft have become very important and is the key mantra to success in both the professional and personal front.Soft skills is now a subject in most colleges in Chennai and students have to take an exam that gets them credits. With India emerging as a hub for different out sourcing activities, employers want their employers to have soft skills along with the technical or hard skills. Teachers therefore, do play an important role in enhancing soft skills among students at the tertiary level from where most of them refer to go for an employment.Academicians,course planners and material producers, collaborators and people at the helm of affairs are looking at how best these skills go to the students and they use them at work to bring success not only for themselves and the organization they work.
Vol. 4 Issue 43 – Research Paper: 'Eliot’s Concern to Modernity and The Story of an Un-heroic Hero Prufrock- An Evaluation of Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Chetan Trivedi
The works of T.S. Eliot are frequently interpreted in terms of the contemporary time-spirit as he is considerably influenced by his time and its scenario. The story of the misfortunes of modern society is the story of his poems. Eliot’s poetry has relevance not merely to the modern peculiar human situation but also to the universal human predicament. His poems are the analysis of ‘crisis’ and ‘contemporary disillusionment’. His poems also show the shadow of time-spirit, the predicament of modern man, the futility and misery of modern existence. In the Present Research Paper, the Researcher has depicted the Modernity and Un-heroic Heroism of Prufrock in the poem Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Vol. 4 Issue 34 – Article: ‘Teaching English As a Foreign Language With Social Responsibility’ by Larry M. Lynch
Are you conserving and recycling water? As EFL, ESL or foreign language teaching professionals we ultimately have a responsibility to our learners, our adopted communities and ourselves as a form of social responsibility. We can quite easily, quickly and responsibly incorporate global, regional and local social issues into our class sessions to provide our language learners with an outlet for their English as a foreign language or other foreign language communicative skills. Pollution, crime, the environment, global warming and terrorism are all available topics of concern regionally and locally worldwide. Take water conservation for example.