Tag: Tips for teaching speaking

Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Whether you teach pre-school, young learners, teens or adults, the ability to make your classroom a place where creativity thrives is a crucial factor in motivating and engaging learners. This talk explores seven ways to promote creativity and illustrates each one with a range… Continue reading Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching talk as performance requires a different teaching strategy. Jones (1996:17) comments that: Initially, talk as performance needs to be prepared for and scaffolded in much the same way as written text, and many of the teaching strategies used to make understandings of written… Continue reading Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as performance (Cambridge Conversations)