Noblesville Schools does not offer a summer program for English Language Learners. Teachers there have, however, learned different strategies to help English Language Learners in the classroom during the school year, said Jeanne Fredericks, the district’s curriculum director. According to her, 283 students in the district describe English as a second language to them.
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Head over to the ELT Times and read what’s happening in the world of ELT. Among recent articles, you can find a guide to the advantages of a TESOL Course by Manuel Kupka, Memoirs of a Teacher by Paul Selibio, Blindfold Activities in the TEFL classroom by William Sullivan and Teaching English in Japan by John [...]
For Japanese businesspeople to carry out their duties in English, they should ultimately aim for English skills equivalent to at least 900 points out of 990 on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)–a near-native speakers’ level–a group of researchers has proposed, based on a survey of more than 7,300 businesspeople.
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Sri Lanka: Taking English to far-flung places
It is a lazy Sunday morning but a diverse group from all over the country is gathered in Colombo intently listening to senior trainers going through the paces of how to teach English. This is just one of the numerous workshops and training programmes for teachers and would-be [...]
ETJ One-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Japanese Students (For Teachers of Teenagers and Adults)This year’s course will be held in the following cities:
Sunday June 1st – Tokyo
Sunday June 8th – Osaka
Sunday June 15th – Nagoya
Training sessions:
‘Reading skills -methods and applications‘ Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University)
‘Teaching skills for listening and speaking‘ Alastair Graham-Marr (Tokai University)
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Over on the Head over to the ELT World News blog, the excitement is as ever at fever pitch with incredible TEFL headlines from all around the world. First up, we have the amazing story of the Filipino English teacher, Feliciano Jaime “Chito” Atienza, who got a New York Times award for teaching. [...]
SELHi in Action / No Japanese Translation in This Class
In 2005, the Asahikawa Kita High School was designated as a curriculum research school (foreign language) by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research. The school changed its English teaching method from a conventional grammar translation method to immersive English education. Although the institute’s designation expired [...]
Korea: Korean Students Undaunted by Body English Brouhaha
Koreans studying here find the conditions ideal for them to learn English as a second language, said a top official of the Bureau of Immigration. “The country’s cost of quality education and its foreigner-friendly immigration policies are attracting more Koreans to visit and enroll in Philippine schools,” [...]
Last month I highlighted the excellent Teaching without Borders blog: Teacher Reflections, Global Connections, explaining what a great idea I thought it was to reflect on the different teaching experiences of the different countries of the contributors. I’m delighted that Jennifer Uhler and Jeff Mattison have taken the time and considerable effort to talk [...]
I’ve recently received some very nice feedback on David’s English Teaching World from the people who run the Teacher Reflections, Global Connections blog and wanted to do more than just reciprocate because their blog is excellent.
The blog is the work of three language teachers in Japan, Estonia, and the USA, reflecting on their classrooms through this ‘interactive online journal’. I really [...]
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