Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Video: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Bilingual Primary

Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation(CCE) is a new scheme of evaluation formulated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Minister of Human Resources Development and the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India for Classes IX and X which are affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. The main objective is to reduce the accumulated stress of board exams on the students and to introduce a more uniform and comprehensive pattern in education for the students all over the nation. It provides continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad based learning, covering every aspect of students’ development. CCE helps in enhancing students’ performance by identifying their learning difficulties at regular time intervals right from the commencement of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for improving their learning performance.

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Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Video: How to integrate social media into your English language teaching

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#1 | January 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Kristin Sherman, co-author of OUP's new adult English course Network, teaches one of the Get Connected lessons from the course…

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Vol. 5 Issue 1 – Event: 2nd Regional Symposium on Language, Literature and Translation, Bahrain – March 27-28

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#1 | January 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The Department of English Language & Literature is delighted to announce its second regional symposium on language, literature and translation.

SYMPOSIUM THEMES

Our symposium this year will, as previously, represent an eclectic mix of theoretical and pedagogical research within the three branches of language, translation and literature.  We are especially interested in receiving submissions in the following areas:

  • Emergent technologies, language, literature and translation
  • Translation in the interconnected world
  • The integration of language and literature
  • Current research and developments in ESP practice
  • New directions in cultural and communication studies

Although submissions will be particularly welcomed in these broad areas, we are happy to consider other submissions.  Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. (more…)

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