ELT World Blog- How to introduce an English Textbook to your Students1. Introduction “Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember, Involve me and I learn. “ -Benjamin Franklin Textbook is one of the main instruments of educating and preparing students for the examinations. On the first or … Continue reading → […]
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Spain: 25 Murcia schools to become bilingual next school year
Pupils at 25 infant and primary schools throughout Murcia will be offered the chance of bilingual education in the next academic year under a programme which will offer a third of the schools’ classes in English, notes the Typically Spanish … Continue reading
India: English for Progress
According to the Times of India, as part of its global vision for English, the British Council has launched the programme ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka. The aim is that by 2010 every teacher and learner of English … Continue reading
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Canada: ‘Sports kept me going… It made me come to school more’
The Ottowa Citizen notes that when Awo Farah arrived in Canada from Djibouti in 2001 to seek a better education, the nine-year-old Grade 5 student couldn’t speak English. Eight years later, it’s amazing how her life has developed … all … Continue reading
United States: A new style of teaching
It’s a new style of teaching and reaching out to English-language learners. It uses charts and chants and turns students into “super scientists” and “experts,” putting them in control of their education, proponents say. The teaching style is known as … Continue reading
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Japan & United States: Multicultural Awareness in Okinawa
The AmerAsian School in Okinawa (AASO) is unique in that it enrolls almost exclusively biracial American-Japanese students, and has developed an original bilingual, bicultural “double” curriculum. Founded in 1998 by five Okinawan mothers, the privately run, K-9 school of 80 … Continue reading
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India: It’s back to basics for teachers
It’s back to the classroom for English lecturers at various government colleges in the state. Under the project high TEC’ (teaching English through conversation), the commissionerate of collegiate education and the US department of state have organised a training programme … Continue reading
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Malaysia to end teaching math and science in English
According to Forbes, Malaysia is to abandon teaching maths and science in English, saying that far too many children from poor rural areas were failing by the programme. The decision to start phasing out English medium teaching from 2012 has … Continue reading
Spain: Bilingual education throughout Málaga province
More than 100 schools and colleges will be bilingual during the next academic year in Málaga province. The Junta de Andalucía has said that it wants to promote the teaching of English, French and German, and that 136 centres will … Continue reading
United States:Learners with disabilities may not get right diagnosis & placement
Way back in 1985, a Cambodian refugee enrolled in the School District of Philadelphia was mistakenly placed in a special education classroom, based on the results of a test indicating that he was mentally handicapped. But the test had been … Continue reading
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United Kingdom: English teaching ‘outstanding’ at Challney Boys
A school where more than 40 different languages are spoken by pupils has just been commended by the ever reliable Ofsted for its ‘outstanding’ English teaching. At Challney Boys School nearly all of the pupils are from ethnic minorities and … Continue reading
