#69, Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum Course Preview

This video includes snippets from the following segments: * Components of Effective Instructional Delivery in ESL/ELD and Sheltered Instruction/SDAIE Featuring a classroom scene that demonstrates best practices from the English Learners Scaffolding Strategies Checklist * Contextual Factors in Second Language Acquisition Featuring a panel discussion, How is it that some English Learners acquire English more… Continue reading #69, Video: Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum Course Preview

#66, Video: The Longest Words in the English Language

Words from this video: Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Recut Trailer, Honorificabilitudinitas, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, ablative, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Church of England, Henry VIII, Thomas Cranmer, Martin Luther, floccinoccinihilipilification, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, The National Puzzlers’ League, Titin.

#65, ELT Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 13, Peer Observation in Teaching Practices

Classroom observation can take different forms. The two most common are: 1. Summative observation, in which another teacher or an administrator observes the class. The purpose for this is evaluative and may result a rating of some kind. 2. And, formative observation, in which two teachers, or “€œpeers,”€ do a “friendly”€ observation of each other’€™s… Continue reading #65, ELT Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Module 13, Peer Observation in Teaching Practices

#64, Video: Middle English: Languages of the World

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series,… Continue reading #64, Video: Middle English: Languages of the World

#63, Video: Enhance your ICT presentation skills in class

Presenting to pupils is something teachers do on a day to day basis, yet many are still nervous about incorporating ICT into their presentations. Lise meets Joe Dale, a middle school French teacher, who is already using ICT technology to enhance his own presentations. After observing one of his classes, Lise returns to her own… Continue reading #63, Video: Enhance your ICT presentation skills in class

#62, Video-2: Pronunciation and Teaching Techniques

BridgeTEFL’s English Language Teaching In Action is a comprehensive 5-DVD set packed with 70 videos on essential topics in English language instruction. With lively games, fail-proof lessons, insightful classroom management tips, and much more, this collection has everything you need to make your teaching more effective! Contents of Disc 5: Pronunciation and Teaching Techniques Pronunciation… Continue reading #62, Video-2: Pronunciation and Teaching Techniques

#61, Video: David Treuer – 2007 Heginbotham Lecture Series

Award-winning author David Treuer was the speaker for the 2007 Possibilities Heginbotham Literary Lecture. The lecture hosted by the Department of English and Modern Languages was held in the Buetow Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Treuers third novel, The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006), was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington… Continue reading #61, Video: David Treuer – 2007 Heginbotham Lecture Series