ELT Tips – Page 8

Vol. 5 Issue 8 – Video: Supporting teenagers with specific learning needs (Part 2)

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#8 | March 4, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Michel Dalosio, a lecturer on pedagogy at University of Venice, talks about supporting teenagers with specific learning needs.

Vol. 5 Issue 8 – Video: Supporting teenagers with specific learning needs (Part 1)

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#8 | March 4, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Michel Dalosio, a lecturer on pedagogy at University of Venice, talks about supporting teenagers with specific learning needs.

Vol. 5 Issue 8 – Video: Vowel Pronunciation – u (uh/oo)

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#8 | March 4, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Vol. 5 Issue 8 – Video: Oxford Big Read Activity – Word games

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#8 | March 4, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy’ by Vahid Aryadoust

Language self-appraisal (or self-assessment) is a process by which students evaluate their own language competence. This article describes the relationship between students’ self-appraisals and their performance on a measure of academic listening (AL). Following Aryadoust and Goh (2011), AL was defined as a multi-componential construct including cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, note-taking, rating input to other materials, knowledge of lecture structure, and memory and concentration.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Video: Teaching Grammar in Context

Here’s an example of how to teach grammar using context with an experienced TEFL teacher.

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Sentence Types: Students’ Perceptions and Productions’ by Alaa Al-Musalli and Ibtihaj Al-Harthi

Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Video: Teaching Listening: Gist & Detail

Listening skills are not passive! This teacher uses a sentence scramble and a true or false worksheet to encourage active listening of a teacher-made recording. In these ways, both the main ideas and supporting details are elicited.