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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Vol. 5 Issue 2 – Video: Creating your own vocabulary chants for the English classroom

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#2 | January 14, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 Acclaimed musician and Let's Go chants creator Carolyn Graham explains how to create your own vocabulary chants for your young…

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