English Language Teacher Educator Conference – Hyderabad, February 2015

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 22 | September 15, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

The British Council in partnership with English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) Hyderabad will come together again to host the fifth International English Language Teacher Educator Conference (TEC15) in Hyderabad from 27 February – 1 March 2015. The underlying theme of the previous conferences was improved learning outcomes through quality teacher education and teaching. This year, we will focus on ensuring quality in teacher education in the belief that quality in teachers’ learning leads to better learning outcomes for our learners.

The bottom line of teacher education is the quality of teacher performance in terms of its impact on the learner and indirectly on larger social transformation. (National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education 2009/10 p. 4)

The theme will allow a wide-ranging exploration of teacher education in India and beyond, with a focus on quality in both pre-service education and in-service training. Key policy initiatives and documents in India such as the Teacher Education Mission launched in April 2013, the NCFTE (cited above) and the Planning Commission of India’s 12th Five Year Plan highlight issues of quality as fundamental to all aspects of the initial and continuing professional development of teachers, whether it is delivered face to face or online, moderated or self access.

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‘Communicative Language Teaching – A rescue to English beginners’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 22 | September 15, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This article is submitted by Reena Mittal. 

CLT was introduced in late 1970s in European countries for making those familiar with English whose first language is not English. It is an approach to language teaching in which both teacher and student participate enthusiastically and learn simultaneously. The main focus of CLT is to develop skills with new academic ideas by which English teaching and learning both become interesting and easier. CLT is the approach of teaching which contain following qualities:-

  • learning through interaction
  • Introducing text according to learning situation
  • Main focus on learning process
  • Teacher’s personal experience is the actual book.
  • To connect classroom with outside world by giving new activities.

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UGC Sponsored National Conference on ‘Emerging Disciplines of Applied Linguistics’, Bangalore, October 13-14, 2014

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The Department of English, APS College of Commerce, N R Colony, Bangalore -19, is organizing a UGC sponsored national conference on ‘Emerging Disciplines of Applied Linguistics’ onOctober 13-14, 2014.

About the Conference:

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, computer-mediated communication (CMC), conversation analysis, contrastive linguistics, sign linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, lexicography, language planning and policy, interlinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics,forensic linguistics and translation.  (more…)

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