ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teachers: What’s Your Motto in the Classroom? (Edutopia blog) A Review of the book “An Introductory Textbook on Translation”…
OUP’s ‘Technology Enhanced Language Learning’ Webinar February 25-26
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Webinar overview
Teachers are increasingly expected to make use of digital technologies in their practice.
This talk will look at some of the reasons for using technology in language learning and teaching with suggestions for some practical activities. In addition, participants will be encouraged to contribute their own ideas for using technology to enhance language teaching.
Writing – Solutions to Mistakes (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Olha Madylus says, “Many teachers voice concerns about their students’ inability to improve their writing and learn from their mistakes. Why is it so difficult to improve? Is it the approach we take to writing? We don’t like to write in our own language so why would our students want to write in English?
There are a number of ways to help students overcome their difficulties. Students jump very quickly from producing short texts, which are often written in order to practise a particular grammar item, to writing compositions which require a lot more than simply getting the ‘grammar right’ to be successful.