Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Video: Pete Sharma: Using apps in language teaching
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#11 | March 25, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 This is a clip from Pete Sharma's recent webinar for Cambridge English Teacher on using apps in language teaching. To…
Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Research Paper: ‘Readers Theatre: Improving Oral Proficiency in a Japanese University EFL Course’ by Patrick NG & Esther Boucher-Yip
Improving oral proficiency in the EFL classroom is usually a major goal for most EFL instructors. One effective approach in teaching oral skills is the use of drama called Readers Theatre (RT). It is a presentational performance based on principles and techniques of oral interpretation which seeks to entertain, instruct and persuade (Adams, 2003).
Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Research Paper: ‘Using Blogs to Practice Grammar Editing Skills’ by Christopher Harwood
This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students. To begin, the idea that blogging encourages learner autonomy by facilitating the practice and negotiation of meaning of ‘comprehensible output’ (Swain, 1995) is discussed.