Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Webinar: Let’s Share: Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom, January 25

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

OUP team is hosting a webinar Friday, January 25, 2013. The webinar is on ‘Let’s Share: Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom’.

Would you like to bring technology into your English class? Not sure how to start? Incorporating even a small amount of technology in your teaching can yield enormous rewards in learning.

Join Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto in a webinar that will help you to:

  • Understand how technology can enhance your lessons
  • Find innovative ways to use the technology tools you already have available to you
  • Include high tech ideas in your lessons even if you teach in a low tech classroom.

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Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Article: Technology is starting to change language-learning

THE teacher who corrects your correspondent’s awful Mandarin is soft-spoken, authoritative and far away. Thanks to Skype, you can have face-to-face lessons with native speakers of more or less any language without stirring from your chair. Technology may one day make language-learning redundant (see article); meanwhile, it makes it easier.

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Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Symposium: Alternative Pedagogies in the English Language & Communication Classroom, Singapore – May 27-29, 2013

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore, invites colleagues from the world over to participate in its fourth international symposium for English language teachers. This symposium combines classroom-based research paper presentations, workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions, and colloquia to give presenters and participants an enriching professional experience.

The theme, Alternative Pedagogies in the English Language & Communication Classroom, focuses on a pedagogic inquiry into ways of teaching that respond to recent globalizing and cultural forces as well as technologies impacting instruction and learning. Beyond the ‘best practices’ approach, such inquiry urges participants and presenters to explore the interplay of theories and practices, particularly that which generates the production of knowledge informing classroom processes and practices. This line of inquiry also urges everyone to forge professional and institutional ties intended to promote a dialogue about and reflections on radical and innovative approaches to language and communication instruction. (more…)

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