Celia Webb has followed up her article ‘Improving Vocabulary through Latin Prefixes‘ over at the ELT Times with ‘It was Greek to Me: Improving Your English by Knowing Greek Roots‘.
‘Greek provides many important prefixes, suffixes, and roots used in the English language‘ regales Celia in her article at the World’s first online TEFL Newspaper. ‘To [...]
The TESOL Online Discussions on Key Issues in ELT series is currently raising the issue of ‘Successes and Challenges in Meeting the Needs of Young Learners’. The rapid growth of English language learning worldwide has created opportunities as well as serious challenges regarding language policy, teacher training, and lack of resources in effectively meeting the [...]
‘English contains many words adopted from other languages‘, notes Celia Webb, somewhat emphatically, over at the ELT Times: the World’s first online TEFL Newspaper. ‘In fact‘, she proclaims, ‘experts estimate 80% of English words originated elsewhere. The biggest influence on English vocabulary is Latin. An examination of the 20,000 most used words reveals 5,000 words [...]
The University of Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Examinations is planning to work with education councils and corporate sectors across the UAE to raise the standard of English among students, teachers and professionals in the country. While a number of students of private schools in the emirates are already writing the different [...]
Namibia & United Kingdom: Learners from three Namibian schools yesterday met some of their British counterparts under a programme, Connecting Classrooms, by the British Council in Namibia.
The programme is aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue through school links.
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By Luke Fisher
We’re once again joined by Luke Fisher, who delves into the world of teacher training courses in this latest addition to the guest authors series:
The various types of TEFL Certification available make it important to research all possible options before learning to teach English as a second language. As there are many types [...]
Let’s face it, whichever educational institution you happen to be working for, wherever in the world you happen to be, if the issue of budgetary control of photocopying and printing doesn’t rear its ugly head, you have to consider yourself very, very lucky. It’s of course not just everyday printing needs that eat so heavily [...]
In news that fills my heart with joy, I was delighted to learn of the emergence of Sesame Street English, a new 26×2-minute series from Sesame Workshop featuring anime-style versions of the show’s signature Muppets introducing preschoolers to the English language. Sesame Street English, which can be adapted for classrooms, uses research-based methods to provide [...]
FastTrackFundraising.com is a leader in the non-profit fundraising industry. Every year, many thousands of groups, organizations, sports teams, associations, and other types of non-profits seek to raise money to pay for expenses.
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i-to-i is one of the biggest providers of TEFL courses and TEFL jobs abroad. In the past 12 months alone i-to-i has trained 15,000 people to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and assisted them in finding jobs across the globe and have also picked up a clutch of ‘prestigious’ awards and nominations.
Throughout October, [...]
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