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ELT World- Does the NCLB act promote monolingualism?The United States is now eight years into the No Child Left Behind Act and educators, researchers, and advocates remain locked in heated debate over the effects of the law’s testing and accountability mandates on students, many from immigrant homes where a language other than English is spoken. Edweek notes how two recently reported developments reveal [...] […]
- UAE: Why Arab students find English trickyGulf News notes that a study by the British University in Dubai has indicated that insufficient attention is paid to spelling principles and this results in poor written English among Arab learners. An education expert has noted that, in order to produce students who speak better English, they must be made aware of the different language [...] […]
- Ireland and Saudi Arabia: Saudi language school plan sparks ‘ghetto’ rowRock that shit homies. A plan to house 750 Saudi students on a live-in English language school outside Dublin has raised concerns in government departments, notes the Irish Independent. Government sources have expressed concern that it conflicts with integration policy and could lead to ghettoisation. Read the full story here. Post Footer automatically gener […]
- Maintaining discipline with 10/11 year oldsHere is a lovely post from the forum that I want to share with you all, courtesy of sollettspain: I have a class of 10/11 year olds at elementary level. I teach them twice a week for an hour at a time. I find the behaviour management by far the most difficult thing with this class. [...] […]
- The big Australasia TEFL news roundupHere are some recent TEFL headlines from around the region. South Korea: Language education ’starts in the womb’ Bilingual education starts from womb, a research team led by Krista Byers-Heinlein and Janet Werker from the University of British Columbia claims to have found. The researchers compared the reactions of newborn babies whose mothers are monolingua […]
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I don’t think that most people taking the CELTA course intend to use it in Britain. Everyone that I knew who took it were planning on going abroad. It’s true that a lot of them don’t know where they’ll be going in the next year or two, so a children’s ELT course would be quite useful to them. In general though, I found it a very useful course to take. A lot of people also take it for the same reason people take any certificate course – job opportunities. In certain parts of the world, simply having the CELTA will open a lot of doors for you.
It will open doors but all of them dead end and low paid
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Forget 10/11 year olds, I have exactly the same problem with uni students.
Interesting!
Interesting!
Teaching little kids can be particularly stressfull if you don’t have any experience with little kids. But once you figure them out — little kids are completely different than adults or even bigger kids — it’s great.
Awesome!
Well, I am encountering the same pupils as you. And you’re 100% right that one of the so many ways to cope with that disturbing behaviour is holding a game or any other classroom activities that would lead them to be active.
Irfan TEFL
Thanks for that, Irfan.