Vol. 5 Issue 11 – Article: ‘Indian Education System and English Language Teaching’ by Akshay Shingare & Padmavat Nirmala Shivram

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#11 | March 25, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Abstract

English is mostly taught in India as a Second language. But As a Student, it was found that maximum schools and college students are considering English as a subject not a language. And this is the main reasons of errors in English for Indian Pupil. There must be the same way of teaching English as a mother-tongue. First meaning then grammar means L-S-R-W not L-R-S-W. Present paper deals with all this factors and right path of teaching English in the class-room by teacher. (more…)

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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).

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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.

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