ELTWeekly Volume 9

Article: Back to School Activities for your EFL Classroom

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:January 9, 2017
Post category:ELTWeekly Volume 9 Volume 9 Issue 2

Happy New Year! To celebrate another successful year ahead of language learning, and to welcome you and your students back to class, we asked three of our former contributors Vanessa Esteves, Christopher Graham, and Julietta Schoenmann to devise a series of lesson plans and activity worksheets for your EFL classrooms. From adult through to primary, enjoy these mixed-level and mixed ability free resources as a gift from Oxford University Press this January. (more…)

9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, July, 2017

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:January 9, 2017
Post category:ELT Conferences ELTWeekly Volume 9 Volume 9 Issue 2

EDULEARN17, the 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on the on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of July, 2017.

EDULEARN is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists and professionals from the educational sector. After 8 years, it has become a reference event where more than 700 experts from 80 countries will get together to present their projects and share their knowledge on teaching and learning methodologies and educational innovations. The 2017 edition of EDULEARN is sure to be among the most successful education conferences in Europe. (more…)

Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:January 9, 2017
Post category:ELT Videos ELTWeekly Volume 9 Volume 9 Issue 2

Try to imagine being an illiterate farmer living in extreme poverty in a remote rural village, without electricity and with very few visits from anyone outside your village. How could you learn to keep your family healthy or grow enough food to feed them?

In 2007, Literacy Bridge was formed to understand this problem and to develop a solution. They designed a simple, durable, and battery-operated audio device called the Talking Book to provide on-demand access to locally relevant knowledge. (more…)