ELT World News

Academic Management SIG: Dublin

Academic Management: Establishing and sustaining a learning culture
Dublin, May 23-25, 2008

Yes folks, those weird and wonderful folks at IATEFL have gone and done it again. This time the ‘special interest’ conference aims to provide a forum for exploring how to establish excellent academic management skills and systems. It also aims to stimulate discussion and reflection […]

Uproar in Ireland

Ireland: Gaelscoil Gets Good Marks for English
There’s uproar in Ireland as a new study challenges the findings on the standard of English among pupils in the school at the heart of the row about Irish language education. An inspectors’ report on Gaelscoil Mhic Eamainn in Tralee, Co Kerry, sparked the controversial decision by Education Minister […]

Creative Literacy in Malaysia

Malaysia: Creative Literacy
As we all know so well, it is important to infuse English lessons with creative literacies, according to a report in the Star. Language teaching should not be solely about the teaching of grammar, vocabulary, reading or writing, but should also espouse and nurture the thinking skills of learners, apparently. This can be […]

UK Discovers Gap Fills, Bilingualism in the Algarve

United Kingdom: Language Lady Is Up for Cyber Award

A Bradford woman’s dream of taking English language learning into cyberspace has earned her a regional business nomination, reveals the Telegraph and Argus. Language teacher Bernadette Wall, 52, launched gapfillers.co.uk in 2006 to make English easier to learn for foreigners.

Hundreds of subscribers have signed up to the […]

California Seeks New Ways to Teach English

Kansas: English Language Learners Programs Grow Quickly in Metro Area

Itzel Negrete and Rukiya Yusuf use a laptop to fine-tune the Power Point conferences they’ll present for their parents at Manor Hill Elementary. The fourth-graders, students in Liberty’s English Language Learners program, are working on the same kind of assignment that their mainstream peers in Liberty, […]

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 Pulitzar Club Nigeria , Mr. Henry-Otis Amurun said this during an Education Roundtable on ‘The Incipient […]