Using virtual reality in the classroom [Video]
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 9 | April 16, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036] Lulwa Bordcosch explores the possibilities on offer through using virtual reality in the ELT classroom, and talks to teachers…
5 things you need to know about Academic Vocabulary
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 9 | April 16, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Learning vocabulary is about so much more than ticking off words on a list as you manage to match a written word form to a surface meaning or translation. For a learner to say they really know a word, especially if they hope to count it amongst their productive vocabulary, then it takes time, repeated encounters, and digging a bit below the surface. This, of course, is true of all language learners, but for those learning English for academic purposes (EAP) the specific aspects of vocabulary knowledge differ somewhat. In this post, I pick out some of the factors that those teaching and learning academic vocabulary might need to bear in mind:
Graded Readers and 21st Century Skills
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 9 | April 16, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Graded readers then and now
Using graded readers to help learners to improve their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills is not a recently discovered English teaching technique. In the 1920s, for instance, Dr Michael West edited a series called New Method Supplementary Graded Readers (Longman) with exactly this aim, and these were not the first simplified story books for foreign learners of English. Nowadays, most ELT publishers produce a wide range of readers designed to appeal to different age groups. Oxford University Press, for example, publishes both Bookworms and Dominoes for teenage readers. (more…)