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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$1 billion to widen school choice in China
China: Secondary schools will be allowed to choose the medium of instruction for various subjects from September next year, according to a HK$1 billion plan unveiled by the government yesterday. However, schools choosing to use English must ensure that 85 … Continue reading
Hong Kong secondary schools may revert back to teaching in English
China: Up to 80 Hong Kong schools could be given the choice of switching back to teaching in English, eleven years after a “mother-tongue” policy ordered them to teach in Chinese, government officials confirmed Friday. The Earth Times notes that … Continue reading
Hong Kong: The play’s the thing for English learning
Drama, with its extensive range of meaningful contexts, can help develop students’ language skills, including writing, chairman of the Standing Committee on Language Education & Research Michael Tien said today. Read the full story… Post Footer automatically generated by Add … Continue reading
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English trumps Chinese as top business language in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: A while ago I noted that only one in seven Hong Kong people consider themselves as speakers of ‘good’ English. However, eleven years after it ceased to be a British colony, English remains the most important language to … Continue reading
Only one in seven Hong Kongers speaks good English, survey finds
Eleven years after British rule ended, only one in seven Hong Kong people consider themselves as speakers of ‘good’ English, according to a survey released October 10. More than 40 per cent of people in the former British colony describe … Continue reading
Hong Kong: Education Chief Urges English Emphasis
Hong Kong’s students must master English to ensure the country’s global competitiveness. This was the message today from Secretary for Education Michael Suen, speaking at the Heung Hoi Ching Kok Lin Association’s Secondary & Primary Schools & Kindergartens. He shared … Continue reading
Hong Kong:The Cat Got Your Mother Tongue?
It was an admission of cultural defeat; but then Hong Kong is nothing if not pragmatic about such things. On June 6th its education minister, Michael Suen Ming-yeung, lifted restrictions that forced four-fifths of the territory’s more than 500 secondary … Continue reading
