‘Communicative Language Teaching – A rescue to English beginners’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 22 | September 15, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This article is submitted by Reena Mittal. 

CLT was introduced in late 1970s in European countries for making those familiar with English whose first language is not English. It is an approach to language teaching in which both teacher and student participate enthusiastically and learn simultaneously. The main focus of CLT is to develop skills with new academic ideas by which English teaching and learning both become interesting and easier. CLT is the approach of teaching which contain following qualities:-

  • learning through interaction
  • Introducing text according to learning situation
  • Main focus on learning process
  • Teacher’s personal experience is the actual book.
  • To connect classroom with outside world by giving new activities.

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‘British vs. American English’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 21 | September 7, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This article is submitted by Reena Mittal. 

This question always give a space to the students of English why words like colour, favourite, meter, centre are spelled differently. Actually there are four major differences in English spellings –

  • Or or our
  • er or re
  • s or z (ise, ize)
  • Word ending with L or ed.

English was started from Britain but after it started spreading in other countries, there comes need of a book which can collect all the words and suggest its meaning whenever needed. (more…)

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