This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students.
Away from ELT theories propounded by the western theorists, the paper aims at studying the scenario of English language teaching in Gujarat and India. While the paper emphasizes the need for English language, it addresses issues related to learner, learning, content and culture and searches for alternatives of culturally loaded English literature taught in Indian class-rooms by the name of English language learning.
The TE editor says, “You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts….
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#17 | April 23, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: What is Special About Language? Book Of The Week: Easy English for Busy People Article: ‘Using Graphic Organizers as Study Guides’ by Kenneth Beare ELTWO Research Paper: ‘Motivation through Autonomy: A Case Study at a Japanese University’ by Richard Miles BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Vocabulary [...]
Kenneth Beare, About.com ESL Guide, has posted an informative article titled “Graphic Organizers in ESL”.
Since the 1990s learner autonomy has become more widely utilized by educators around the world (Little, 2007), but does it necessarily have a positive effect on motivation in second language classrooms? In an attempt to provide at least a partial answer to this question, a preliminary study was conducted in which students in an oral communication class at a Japanese university were given a degree of autonomy in part of the curriculum and then compared with a similar class in which no such autonomy was granted. Students in the dependent group made autonomous decisions as to how the teacher would assess their speaking effort, how feedback would be provided and how this portion of their grade would be calculated and assigned.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and the British Council has been helping to celebrate his 200th birthday. One way that we have done this is by making teaching materials which can help teachers introduce Dickens into their lessons.
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#17 | April 23, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 This paper is submitted by Dr. Jagdish S. Joshi, Associate Professor, UGC-ASC, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Ms. Nita D. Parmar, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar and Mehul N Rana, M.Phil. Research Scholar, Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar. Key Words: CALL, ELT, Innovation in teaching, Impact of CALL, Experimental [...]
Speaking skills are imperative to develop communication competence. However, the need of the hour is to define the kind of speaking to be taught to the students and helping them gain the expertise through engaging classroom practices and valid testing methods. This paper deals with the different theories of speaking before zeroing in on Intensive speaking and promotes a theoretically sound method of teaching and testing Intensive speaking for beginners.
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#16 | April 16, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Book Of The Week: Communicate – Article: ‘Graphic Organizers in ESL’ by Kenneth Beare ELTWO Research Paper: ‘Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom’ by Hayo Reinders BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Using Dickens in class About.com Video:Learn ESL: How to Write a Resume [...]
