Thailand: Even those students who don’t own their own computers seem to find ways to network socially on the Internet in their free time. Flickr is one of these social networking systems, and it has recently been used for English language learning and cultural awareness. Last year, at a conference in Bangkok’s King Mongkut’s University [...]
Thailand: The TKT tests “the candidates’ knowledge of concepts related to language, language use and background to and practice of language teaching and learning”, suggests the Bangkok Post. It does not test the teachers’ practical skills that they would need to have in the classroom. It is a theory test. More than three years ago, [...]
Daily roll call in the remote Umphang Wittayakom School is in English, notes the Bangoko Post, which is not bad considering these are students whose first language isn’t even Thai. In fact, 11 dialects are represented at the school, and the students come from all 26 hill tribe communities in the region. The school is [...]
August 14, 2009, Songkhla, Thailand
The Language and Language Teaching Conference (LLTC), originally Southern Thailand English Language Teaching Conference, will be organized every two years. It will serve as a meeting place for regional, national, and international language and language teaching professionals and scholars to exchange ideas and practices and disseminate their research about [...]
Sri Lanka: Taking English to far-flung places
It is a lazy Sunday morning but a diverse group from all over the country is gathered in Colombo intently listening to senior trainers going through the paces of how to teach English. This is just one of the numerous workshops and training programmes for teachers and would-be [...]
