Book of the week: ‘Instant Academic Skills’ by Sarah Lane

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Instant Academic Skills

Instant Academic Skills provides ready-to-teach, photocopiable lessons for busy teachers who want to give their students extra practice in general academic skills. The lessons cover all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and can be taught individually or as a learning ‘unit’. Challenging activities develop skills vital to academic success such as identifying key ideas and details, predicting content and efficient note-taking, while lively speaking tasks get learners ready to participate in debates and presentations. The Audio CD includes a variety of native and non-native accents in typical academic scenarios such as lectures, interviews and formal talks.

Key Features of this Title

  • This title contains skills practice on a wide range of topics which would appeal to students preparing to enter a variety of disciplines. (more…)

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Conference: ‘Trends in English for Science & Technology’, India – January 29, 2014

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
(Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956)
Jeppiaar Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Road, Chennai – 600 119, Tamil Nadu, India

A one day National Conference
on
Trends in English for Science & Technology
with special focus on
Technical Writing (Download Brochure)

TEST ‘14
29th   January 2014

Organised by
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
Chennai – 600 119, Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: 044-24501644  Extn: 5499 & 5320
www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

Sathyabama University was established under Section (3) of the UGC Act, 1956, in the year 1987. It is a pioneer institute imparting knowledge in the areas of engineering, science, technology and education.  The progress and contribution of the university in the field of technical education for over two decades made the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India to grant University status Under Section (3) of the UGC Act, 1956. Sathyabama University is steered towards success under the leadership of visionary Honorable Chancellor Col. Dr. JEPPIAAR, Madam Chancellor Tmt. Remibai Jeppiaar, and the able support and guidance of the Directors  Dr. Marie Johnson and Dr. Mariazeena Johnson. The university has undertaken various sponsored projects funded by National organizations such as ISRO, DST, IGCAR, DRDO.,  MoEF, CSIR, NRSC, DBT, MWR, BRNS, CVRDE etc. The University is successfully conducting non-formal education programmes through 18 village Resource Centers all over the state. (more…)

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Research Paper: ‘Two Dimensions of Teacher Knowledge: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching’ – Devon Woods & Hamide Çakır

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The interconnected conceptual areas of teacher knowledge and teacher beliefs (included by some authors under the rubric of teacher cognition) have been debated in the field of language education intensively for the last two decades, during which time the terminology used in the discussions has been interpreted in a variety of different ways. However, there have been limited attempts to study the way in which teacher knowledge and beliefs develop in specific cases of language teaching methodology: one area of that has not been studied is that of knowledge/beliefs of communicativeness in language teaching. This paper argues that the conceptual area referred to by the above term is multi-dimensional and dynamic. (more…)

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