Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Article: ‘Use Study Groups to Promote Better Grades for LD Students’ by Ann Logsdon
Ann Logsdon, About.com ESL Guide, has posted an informative article titled "Use Study Groups to Promote Better Grades for LD Students".
Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Webinar: Thinking skills
In this webinar I will be focussing on some of the reasons why thinking is not always built into language classes and some of the things that teachers can do to encourage their learners to think more critically and more effectively. I will refer, among other things, to the place of textbooks, the importance of questions and questioning, the value of language awareness work and the inner world of learners.
Vol. 4 Issue 19 – Book Of The Week: ‘Essential Reading’ by Scott Miles, Chris Gough, Jackie McAvoy and Amanda French
Essential Reading is an American English, four-level course that builds on the latest research into good readers. It includes explicit vocabulary work and fluency development – each book comes with a complete short story taken from the Macmillan Readers series.