ELT World Blog- ELT World TEFL Website of the month: ELT ChatELT Chat With the current big bang-scale increase of the twittersphere, a new type of chat has surfaced for English language professionals. The wonderful #ELTChat is currently being moderated by Twitter TEFL heavyweights @ShellTerrell, @Marisa_C, @englishraven, and @olafelch (although the … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Subject Matters – Reading, Writing… and Readying for TestsIt’s the best of times and the worst of times, exclaims the unusually Dickensian CNN, for English teachers as they find themselves more accountable than ever for the academic success of their students, while balancing new technologies that change time-honored … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Feds Make ELLs a Priority for Tests Based on Common-Core StandardsThe federal government, notes Education Week, is intending to provide grants for the development of English-language-proficiency assessments that are aligned with the national common-core standards. The proposed grant competition would push the country toward more uniformity for the definition of … Continue reading → […]
- Vietnam: Pilot English Teaching Project is Hit by Staff Shortage and Poor SkillsFactors including a serious lack of facilities, as well as a shortage of qualified teachers have adversely affected the Ministry of Education and Training’s pilot English language teaching programme for primary school children, notes VietnamNet. Read more on this… Post … Continue reading → […]
- Would you have done this for a job?Simple question: would you have done what this person did to try and get a job in the Gulf? She flew me to Qatar on a 1-way ticket (despite my several written requests for a return ticket since it seemed … Continue reading → […]
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Horizons 4 Extracts #5: Jack Snow’s way of Dealing with the Past
Here is the final offering in a series the extracts from the newly available issue four of the ever popular Horizons journal. In this extract, Joseph Bleazard gives us a fiction based on the notion of teaching English tenses: In … Continue reading
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Horizons 4 Extracts #3: Secrets of those who do the TEFL Hiring
Here is the third of the extracts from the newly available issue four of the people’s favourite - Horizons journal. In this extract, the thoughts of forum members on the subject of interviews is discussed: In March, Mishmumkin raised an … Continue reading
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Horizons 4 Extracts #2: Are you an Effective Teacher of Reading?
Here is the second of the extracts from the newly available issue four of the ever astounding Horizons journal. In this extract, Adam Simpson focuses on the teaching of reading: Reading occurs in our lives on a constant basis. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
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Horizons 4 Extracts #1: Dealing with job burnout
Over the next seven days, I’ll be featuring extracts from the newly available issue four of the ever astounding Horizons journal. In this extract, I look at the phenomenon of job burnout, and suggest ways we can avoid it: If … Continue reading
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Spreading the TEFL Love, David style
Who loves his fellow TEFLers, eh? Who loves ya? It fills my heart with joy to be able to make you all so happy, which is why I’m reposting this ever popular free PDF…Methods of teaching foreign languages is the … Continue reading
What is a Lesson Plan?
Finally, I continue my occasional series of files that aim to make the world of ELT a better place. For those of you new to the world of teaching, this new PDf file might give some pointers as to what … Continue reading
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English language learning and teaching
English language learning and teaching is yet another in the series of free downloadable articles supplying background information on our dearly beloved TEFL profession. This article looks at ELT terminology, types of English, typical learner difficulties, various learner exams, the … Continue reading
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The Critical Period Hypothesis
What is it about being a child that enables us to learn our first language so well? This issue is discussed in the latest in my series of free downloadable articles, the critical period hypothesis: Subscribe to David’s English Teaching … Continue reading
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Putting your Minds at Ease
Many of you have been asking about the front cover of the first issue of Horizons. What is that image? The picture is entitled ‘Yalova’ and was created by that little known artist David Vincent. Yalova is a small city … Continue reading
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