This article reports findings from an investigation of the English language arts (LA) assessment strategies used in Hong Kong secondary schools, and the extent to which these strategies reflect the principles of performance-based assessment.
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Vol. 4 Issue 20 – Research Paper: ‘Does the Medium Determine the Outcome in Virtual Academic World?’ by Jit Shalin
With the help of broadband technology and other novel tools of the Information Age, virtual education makes possible for all human beings in the whole of the world to overcome impediments of age, time and place; to enter online classrooms for accessing handy virtual resources needed to succeed; to learn from top level teachers, experts and scholars; and also to achieve our individual ambitions for improving our life as a fundamental dream and desire in the 21st century.
Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Article: ‘Use Study Groups to Promote Better Grades for LD Students’ by Ann Logsdon
Ann Logsdon, About.com ESL Guide, has posted an informative article titled “Use Study Groups to Promote Better Grades for LD Students”.
Vol. 4 Issue 19 – ELTWO Research Paper: ‘Reading What’s Beyond the Textbooks: Documentary Films as Student Projects in College Reading Courses’ by Alejandro S. Bernardo
This paper discusses how useful documentaries are in teaching college reading courses.
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 18
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#18 | April 30, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Book Of The Week: ‘Interact’ by Bob Jones & David Coulson . Webinar: Dealing with challenging learners . About.com Video: Vocabulary for Business Letters . Video: Language and the Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn . BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Using poems to develop productive skills… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 18
Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Article: ‘Top 7 Strategies to Deliver Great Presentations’ by Ann Logsdon
Kenneth Beare, About.com ESL Guide, has posted an informative article titled “Graphic Organizers in ESL”.
Vol. 4 Issue 18 – ELTWO Research Paper: Using Blogs to Practice Grammar Editing Skills’ by Christopher Harwood
This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students.
Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Research Paper: ‘In Search of Swaraj in ELT Class-rooms: Translation, Indian Literatures and English’ by Tushar Vyas
Away from ELT theories propounded by the western theorists, the paper aims at studying the scenario of English language teaching in Gujarat and India. While the paper emphasizes the need for English language, it addresses issues related to learner, learning, content and culture and searches for alternatives of culturally loaded English literature taught in Indian class-rooms by the name of English language learning.
Vol. 4 Issue 18 – BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Using poems to develop productive skills
The TE editor says, “You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts….
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 17
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#17 | April 23, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: What is Special About Language? Book Of The Week: Easy English for Busy People Article: ‘Using Graphic Organizers as Study Guides’ by Kenneth Beare ELTWO Research Paper: ‘Motivation through Autonomy: A Case Study at a Japanese University’ by Richard Miles BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Vocabulary… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 17