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Vol. 4 Issue 27 – English Teaching Assistantship Grant in Belgium

Nate Preus from Iowa, United States, received an English Teaching Assistantship Grant. He was an English Teaching Assistant at the University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium thanks to a Fulbright grant. In this video he talks about his application and stay in Belgium.

Vol. 4 Issue 26 – Video: Empowering the Language Learner

Using a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, ESL education specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman traces the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years, discussing how each evolutionary phase has contributed to a more “whole-person” view of language learners.

Vol. 4 Issue 26 – Video: Seven Ways of Looking at Grammar

What is grammar, and how is it internalized in the mind? Is it made up of symbolic code or of neural connections? Is it a sedimented trace left by previous conversations or an innate human capacity? Our answers to these questions obviously shape the way we go about teaching second languages.

Vol. 4 Issue 25 – TeachingEnglish Seminars: The essay and beyond: writing for different purposes in British universities

Hilary Nesi, Professor in English language at Coventry University, discusses the written genres university students are required to produce in different disciplines and at different levels of study. The presentation draws on findings from the 6.5 million word British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus of student writing.

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 24

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#24 | June 11, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Conference: 9th Annual CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching, February 23-23, 2013 – Cambodia  . Video: Teaching resources free online | Teaching English | British Council  . TeachingEnglish Seminars: The ESOL Debate  . Video: The Phonetics Symbols Course – Lesson 1  . Book of the… Continue reading ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 24

Vol. 4 Issue 24 – Video: Teaching resources free online | Teaching English | British Council

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