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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Category Archives: tanzania
No Swahili, no Haya… just English
Tanzania: At SHSS, all of the students speak English, and some very fluently, declares the News of the North. All rules are enforced very strictly by the staff, including the rule that “No student will speak the native language while … Continue reading
British educationist declares English standards in Tanzania schools low
Tanzania: The Director of the village education project in Kilimanjaro, Katy Allen, is advocating a policy change in the teaching of English in the country. Allen, a Briton by origin, started the village education project in 1994. In her paper … Continue reading
English Takes over in Tanzania, Reading Revival in Nigeria
Nigeria: Group Advocates Reading Culture Revival All Africa notes that the collapse of the Nigerian educational system has been attributed to the failure of teaching and learning (and not learning and teaching) of English Language in schools. President of The … Continue reading
