Here are highlights of what you’ll find in the new, action packed edition of Horizons:
What Would Motivate you to Take a New Job?
What do we want from our jobs? There must surely be a reason for us to move on to bigger and better things at one time or another. So, what are our motivations? What [...]
Here are the results of the poll that ran on the blog during December. This is an early extract from the forthcoming issue of Horizons journal, in which the responses given are analysed in detail…
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I received a very interesting email from Nergiz Kern recently, informing me about Project DELTA, a wiki that Nergiz has set up relating to the DELTA course.
Here’s some background info:
Who is this Wiki for?
For teachers like me who have just done the DELTA couresework component and are waiting for the exam results.
For teachers who [...]
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 Common European Framework, teacher qualifications, and common ELT acronyms:
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As the suggests, this file offers a brief description of the history of L2 acquisition…
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Here’s the latest on the proposed changes to the DELTA course, courtesy of the excellent mmcmorrow over on the Teacher Training Forum:
There’s a fairly comprehensive review article about DELTA and the changes that are coming up from Sept 2008 at:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/rs_nts29.pdf
Essentially, the main change will be modularisation. There will be three distinct modules, the first one [...]
Over on the Teacher Training Forum people have been busy making further suggestions for suggested reading texts for the DELTA course.
Leprofdanglais suggests The English Verb by Michael Swan. ‘Lots of teachers hate it, but people should at least have read it’ he notes.
‘Michael Lewis, surely’ suggests Golightly. ‘What he has to say makes an awful lot [...]
Read the concluding part of the interview with the teacher trainers of ITI Istanbul:
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Do you feel that courses such as CELTA and DELTA adequately prepare teachers of English? What would you do to change things if you could?
TOM
The short answer is no. However they serve a useful function. The CELTA was only [...]
The International Training Institute (ITI) specialises in teacher training and development. They have been conducting teacher training courses since 1988 and boast one of the highest success ratios worldwide. ITI is internationally recognised as a leading centre for the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA courses and is the only approved UCLES centre for both of these [...]
One topic that’s causing some heated debate over on the teacher training forum is the methodology of Dogme. This has been a topic that’s divided people since it was first mentioned by Scott Thornbury in the 1990s. Many, myself included, question the practicability of a teaching style based entirely on spontaneity. As nice as it [...]
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