‘ICT Assisted Editing as a Humanising Communicative Task in CLT’ by Professor (Dr) Shibu Simon

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 11 | April 28, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This article proposes to analyse the feasibility and the potential of using ICT1 assisted editing as a humanising2 communicative task3 in CLT4 classrooms. It discusses an editing software but the focus is on how to use this software to provide learners with authentic and meaningful use of language in a participative leaning environment free from fear and anxiety.

Relevance of ICT

ICT (Information and Communication Technology) presents a powerful learning environment for learners in the classroom. A great deal of success as well as challenge comes from how to prepare students to interact and learn in this digital environment. The revolution that the new media such as multimedia computers and the internet in particular can bring to English teaching, unlike the traditional methods and materials, is that they dramatically enlarge the repertoire of educational tools, their possibilities, and their combinations. They allow teachers and learners to extend their access to educational resources that make everything visible and more comprehensible, to help analyse and organise information, to get in touch with different types of media, texts, styles, and registers. (more…)

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‘Regionalism in Pronunciation’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 11 | April 28, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

English in India is a question of Linguistic centralism while the other languages lead to linguistic regionalism. A foreign language always posed problems in the country when exist firmly and distinctly. We have heard of Regionalism in the novels of Hardy and R.K. Narayan; which depicts reference and description of same place. Regionalism to ESL (English speaking and Learning) means particular locale effect in pronunciation. When we visit a particular region of the country, we notice several constructions, sounds of particular alphabet and words which denote that he/she belong to so and so area. This influence sometimes become a good laugh at others expense if we talk globally. (more…)

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#74, Susan Ryan’s Tip: How to Use the Correct Syllable Stress Pattern

Stressing syllables correctly in spoken English is often an area of great difficulty for south Asian language speakers.

Speakers of South Asian languages frequently place stress on the first syllable of a word.  However, in spoken American and British English the stress or emphasis may fall on many different syllables. (more…)

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