{"id":2123,"date":"2012-02-18T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:15:08","slug":"vol-4-issue-8-elt-webinar-thinking-skills-on-february-21-12-00-uk-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 4 Issue 8 \u2013 ELT Webinar: &#8216;Thinking skills&#8217; on February 21, 12.00 UK time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#8 | February 20, 2012 | <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ISSN 0975-3036<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The BBC TeachingEnglish team is hosting a webinar with\u00a0Rod Bolitho on\u00a0February 21, 12.00 UK time.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Lewis says, &#8220;Most people think of a language as having four main skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Good performance in any of these skills, however is dependent on clear thinking, and attention to this needs to be built into every language course. In this webinar I will be focussing on some of the reasons why thinking is not always built into language classes and some of the things that teachers can do to encourage their learners to think more critically and more effectively. <!--more-->I will refer, among other things, to the place of textbooks, the importance of questions and questioning, the value of language awareness work and the inner world of learners&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the webinar:\u00a0<strong>Rod Bolitho<\/strong>, Academic Director at Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingenglish.org.uk\/webinars\/thinking-skills\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to register for the\u00a0&#8216;Thinking skills&#8217; Webinar.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#8 | February 20, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 The BBC TeachingEnglish team is hosting a webinar with\u00a0Rod Bolitho on\u00a0February 21, 12.00 UK time. 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