Tag: ELTWeekly Issue#8

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” Benjamin Lee Whorf

The ELT book of the week for the eighth issue of ELTWeekly is: Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach by Douglas Fisher   Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (October 26, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0131704397 ISBN-13: 978-0131704398 Price: $24.17  From the Back Cover Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach to Language Development,… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Book of the week: Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach

Here is the video of the week for the eighth issue of ELTWeekly: In this video world-renowned linguist Dr. David Nunan speaks on “What is TESOL” at the Anaheim University Akio Morita Learning Center in Tokyo, Japan. David Nunan, Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, is the founding Dean of the Anaheim University Graduate… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Video of the week: What is TESOL?

English Language Learners Take Advantage of Technology Author: Art Gib Learning English has always been a difficult task due to the language’s many intricacies and rules that are quite dissimilar to most of the world’s spoken languages. For example, while most languages place verbs after the noun (ball red), English does the opposite (red ball).… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Expert article: English Language Learners Take Advantage of Technology

Reading before Writing by Tarun Patel Tell the students to read the whole exercise before writing anything. (This will be difficult for some students to do). Once they’ve read it all, let them begin doing the exercise. It is a good idea to read the whole exercise before starting to write anything because sometimes more than one… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Tip of the week: Reading before Writing

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Significance of Error Analysis in Language Teaching and Learning by Neha Joshi   Error and Mistake In order to analyze learners’ errors in a proper perspective, it is crucial to make a distinction between “mistake” and “error”. According to Brown (2000), a “mistake” refers to a performance error in that it is a failure to… Continue reading ELTWeekly Issue#8, Featured article: Significance of Error Analysis in Language Teaching and Learning