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.
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Vol. 4 Issue 25 – ‘Communication Weekly’ Newsletter, Issue 1 Contents
We welcome you to explore the first issue of the ’Communication Weekly’ newsletter. The following are the contents of the first issue of the newsletter.
Vol. 4 Issue 25 – Article: ‘Useful Concepts and Acronyms for English Language Teaching’ by Sarah Handsworth
As with any industry English language teaching is full of specialist terms and acronyms that mean nothing to those outside the industry. This article will take you through some of the most common terms used to help you prepare if you are considering entering the English language teaching industry. I use the term industry, as private language schools exist worldwide generating considerable incomes – some of the larger organisations are franchised on every continent.
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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 – Research Paper: ‘The Effects Of Playing Educational Software On Iranian Kindergarten (Amadeghi) Students’ Achievement’ by Farideh Sharifian Pour & Dr. Fatemeh Alipanahi
This study investigated whether kindergarten students who used the educational software achieved better than peers who did not use the software. Participants were 48 kindergarten students from two classes of an urban school in north of Tehran .Holistic scoring was applied. Results showed a significant improvement in students reading.
Vol. 4 Issue 24 – Research Paper: ‘Regional Component In Foreign Languages Teaching To The Students Of Non-Linguistic Specialties’ by D.K. Kurmanayeva
The higher education institutions of non-linguistic specialties are now facing a problem of students to be professionally trained and graduated from not only in their respective qualifications and specialties but also in the faculty of comprehensive thinking and acquiring knowledge along with multicultural issues. This requires providing such important arrangements to be made for the foreign languages teaching process as various kinds of intercourse related to a given social and cultural ambience, sociopolitical activity along with the main professionally (specialization) adjusted intercourse as the dominating one. It will comprehensively define and shape the professional terms of reference and lights of a given specialist in the course of the higher education process thus incorporating all personal lights what allows the specialist to properly employ and accomplish his/her professional activity by more efficient way, what in turn also provides for further mental development of individuals. In this aspect, the communication component shall be the key one.
Vol. 4 Issue 24 – Book of the week: The Heinemann ELT Elementary English Grammar
A reference and practice book which deals with the real problems elementary learners face.
Vol. 4 Issue 24 – Video: The Phonetics Symbols Course – Lesson 1
This video course has been prepared to give language students a powerful tool for speaking English well. The videos aim to identify and help with the pronunciation of the 39 phonetic symbols of the English language. You may read more about the use of phonetics at http://www.tipsforenglish.com/?p=388 ‘Why Phonetics?’
Vol. 4 Issue 24 – TeachingEnglish Seminars: The ESOL Debate
When I was asked to teach a course on creative writing at Carmel College, I had no clue where to start. After gamely saying ‘yes,’ I had plenty of time to dwell on the enormity of my folly.
Vol. 4 Issue 24 – Video: Teaching resources free online | Teaching English | British Council
TeachingEnglish is the British Council’s website for teachers of English: www.teachingenglish.org.uk