ELTWeekly Volume 8

Better together – maximising language use (Cambridge ELT Blog)

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:January 18, 2016
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[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3 | January 18, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Is language learning through immersion always successful? Marcin Lewandowski and Liz Asadi suggest that it can have a negative impact on learning and how students working together as ‘learning buddies’ can counteract this.

As Krashen intended

London is often a key destination for students who want to learn, improve or practise English. This makes sense. After all, what better place to learn a language than a place where this language is actually spoken by everyone, right?

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Cambridge English Webinar: Online video genres and student creation, February 2

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Post published:January 18, 2016
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[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3 | January 18, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This webinar will look at the most popular online video genres of the moment. We will analyse the influence they have on students’ own video projects. We will show practical examples of students’ work and look at how the structure, organisation and language of these clips can be made accessible to learners and help inform their work.

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Perspective, Pace and Passing: Teaching English in a Foundations Programme (OUP ELT Blog)

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Post published:January 18, 2016
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[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3 | January 18, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

A decade and a half. That’s how long I have been teaching on a Foundations programme in Dubai, and it has been, from a teaching and career perspective, an amazingly positive experience. When I arrived fifteen years ago, I had been teaching general English in Barcelona, and teacher training. The Middle East was as yet unknown to me, and I soon found out that teaching here was a massive change from fun and language games to a serious, high-stakes, assessment-driven academic context. As time passed and I changed my teaching style and persona, I started to find the challenges really absorbing, and my focus changed to developing methodology that worked, writing materials to support this methodology, and sharing my insights. All in all, it has been very satisfying.

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