Cambridge English Webinar: ‘Integrating phonics into the very young learners classroom’ May 12

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 10 | April 13, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Date: Tuesday 12 May

Time: 15:00

This webinar is ideal for teachers who wish to learn about phonics and how this approach can be successfully integrated into the VYL classroom. Lynn Durrant will also discuss considerations that teachers need to be aware of when integrating reading and writing in teaching VYLs and provide ideas for appropriate task types.

This is the first in a series of three forthcoming webinars on teaching very young learners. All who attend will receive a teacher development resource. If you attend every webinar in the series, you will receive a special Teaching Very Young Learners certificate and teacher development resources. (more…)

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#IATEFL – Pronunciation to Go: learning to learn from the dictionary (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 10 | April 13, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Mark Hancock says, “Proverbial wisdom tells us that if you give someone a fish, they can eat for a day, but if you teach someone to fish, they can eat for a lifetime. It’s a message about the long-term value of learning new skills and becoming independent. A similar thing could be said about pronunciation and dictionaries. Each time you teach a learner to pronounce a word, their English benefits a little, but they remain dependent on you. If, however, you can show your learners how to teach themselves the pronunciation of a word using the dictionary, they can improve their own English independently for ever more. (more…)

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