ABSTRACT It is now quite clear that English has become a necessity today. We need it in different fields of life. It is the only valid language that can be understood by everyone across the globe. Hence it has become crucial for language learners to learn and acquire all the skills of this language such [...]
Cartoons as an entertaining source of learning English(L2) for the young learners(YL) by Sharmin Sultana, Senior Lecturer, English Language Institute, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. With the recent development of EFL/ESL studies, researchers are using diverse directions to analyze the language acquisition of the young learners (YL) and are examining more day-to-day issues. What is widely accepted in this regard [...]
Dear readers, with deep feeling of apology, I want to convey that due to my traveling and engagement in some serious academic matters it has not been possible to publish the ELTWeekly this week. see you next week. Tarun
Video: Accent Formation in Foreign Languages News: Indian? Want to prosper? Learn English Article: ‘ESL Employment – Teaching English Abroad, at Home, and Online’ by John D Rogers Research Paper: Integration of the Internet into a Language Curriculum in a Multicultural Society Article: ‘Classroom Observation’ by Jafar Maaitah Research Paper: ‘Technology as an Alchemy of [...]
The rapid growth of the Internet, the global collection of interconnected computer networks, is both stimulative and instructive. The Internet has become one of the most powerful resources in accessing information. It is used for entertainment, sharing items, collecting and analyzing data, conducting interviews, chatting, downloading, and so on as well as education. Among the [...]
Not that surprising, but this is one of the papers emerging from the Royal Economic Society conference I’m attending this week. The effect is large, especially for men: hourly wages up by a third. Here’s the press release: Being fluent in English increases the hourly wages of men in India by 34% and of women [...]
BBC’s TeachingEnglish team has posted a video on using literature for English language teaching and learning. The TeachingEnglish team says, “This is the first of our British Council Seminar videos. The seminars encourage debate on areas of contemporary interest in the field of English language teaching and learning. This particular event, with a focus on using [...]
Those that speak English as a second language have many opportunities open to them. Being bilingual is a tremendous attribute to possess and those that learn English with great proficiency can procure many excellent opportunities. Of course, the beneficial nature of the opportunities will often be based on the skill the person possesses speaking English. [...]
As Hopkins (1993 cited in McDonough 1997) describes, observation is a “pivotal activity with a crucial role to play in classroom research” (p 101). The purpose of this observation is to inspect the various interpersonal interactions between instructor ,aids and learners. Observations is not a rigid technique, it should be a dynamic one, this dynamism [...]
Technology as an Alchemy of Language and Communication: A Critical Estimation of Machine Translation by Mansa Ram Maity, Lecturer in English, Rajiv Gandhi University – IIIT, Basar The century that has gone by, witnessed far-reaching changes in linguistics, Anthropology, literature and philosophy leading to the change in the earlier status of translation considered as ‘a [...]
