Gujrati medium teachers shifted back AHMEDABAD: The state education department recently issued orders that nine surplus Gujarati medium teachers who were posted in English mediumschools for over a decade be transferred back to Gujarati medium schools. This directive comes close on the heels of the TOI report that the pathetic state of English medium students who constantly… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#20, Worldwide ELT news
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ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
Feldman is Howard County Teacher of the Year Kimberly Feldman had no idea what was happening when Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin and other top-ranking school officials entered her class at Oakland Mills High School with a bouquet of flowers. Her students were thrilled by a mock trial lesson, which her principal said is indicative of… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#19, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT news
*** British Council’s first English language teaching centre soon *** Chennai , Apr 24 The British Council will soon open its first English language teaching Centre in Chennai , offering language courses for professional and personal development, specially tailored to needs of Indian learners. The centre would initially open in three classrooms in the Regus Citi Centre, while existing premises on Anna Salai would be renovated, a British Council press release said here today. The Council is equipped to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT news
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news
The place of English language in India today In the mid-1980s, when I was studying journalism in the US, a question I was often asked was: “How do you speak English so well?” My reply was simple and honest. I would start by patiently explaining how I had studied English not just as a language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT news