[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] The future of learning is personal and participatory, and technology enables new strategies and systems for meeting students, and…
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
What are the key characteristics of this situation?
Vocabulary development plays a vital role in making the transition from an intermediate to a more advanced level of language proficiency, but many learners appear to have reached a learning plateau in relation to vocabulary. This may be seen in the overuse of lower-level vocabulary and failure to acquire more advanced-level vocabulary, as well as limited awareness of collocational usage. In terms of the quantitative dimension of vocabulary learning, vocabulary development can be thought of as involving acquisition of a core vocabulary that is common to many different domains, genres, and text types. In addition, learners build up more specialized vocabulary related to their own needs and fields of interests, whether these be academic, occupational, or social. How big is this core vocabulary? (more…)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Headway Scholarship 2015 winner from Argentina
Every August just after the winter holidays, I’ve been experiencing this burning desire to explore what it is like to live, study or work in a foreign country. As a teacher and translator there came a point in my professional life when I started thinking that in my local context there were no further opportunities for me to make progress in my career.
Anyway, it was not until this summer when I came across this post on the Oxford University Press Facebook site when my luck began to change. The Headway series written by Liz and John Soars were opening a competition for teachers who used the series. I didn’t hesitate to take part in it and I worked for two weeks on my video and PowerPoint® presentation to submit them in due time. And after waiting for 3 months I got an email. The subject line was: “Headway scholarship. Winner!.” (more…)