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Korean teachers training at Cal State San Bernardino to improve English skills

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South Korea & California: Chloe Seong has an intense month ahead of her at Cal State San Bernardino. Seong, 30, a fifth-grade teacher, is one of 22 elementary teachers from Seoul, Korea, selected by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to spend four weeks gaining expertise in teaching English to those who speak another [...]

Online second language process soon in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh: The New Nation reports how the permutation of mobile computing, simulation and ESL/EFL learning and teaching have the potential to result in escalating transformation of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) process.

The spread of telecommunication, internet and wireless technology is so dramatic that it took only a quarter century to earn the acceptance [...]

Women’s Forum at ELT World

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At the ever popular ELT World forums, we’ve set up a new forum especially for the ladies among us. We’re hoping this will grow into a useful resource for all females teaching English around the world.

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Click here to take a look at the ELT World Women’s Forum.

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English teaching AND learning in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh: English Language Teaching Improvement Project (ELTIP) is a project under the Ministry of Education (MoE) which has been working to promote teaching learning of English in the secondary level education in Bangladesh. In the recent past the very purpose of learning English has been changed in the context of Bangladesh. Since the beginning [...]

Japan is learning English from Obama’s speeches

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Japan & United States: US President Barack Obama’s speeches are proving a best-seller in Japan — as an aid to learning English, notes Reuters. An English-language textbook, “The Speeches of Barack Obama“, has sold more than 400,000 copies in two months, a big hit in a country where few hit novels sell more than [...]

Germany to consider scrapping English lessons

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Germany: The country is among many in the world which adopted the mantra of ‘the earlier the better’ when it came to teaching pupils English, notes the Telegraph. However, research by the Catholic University of Eichstaett has thrown the educational authorities into confusion. An unpublished study of schoolteachers shows that 95 per cent of [...]

A call to ‘nurture’ the English language empire

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Australia: Britain’s colonial empire may be long gone, but the language that helped run and often unite it has helped build an empire of a different kind. This English language empire needs to be nurtured and protected by universities in English-speaking countries such as Australia, Britain and the US if it is to survive [...]

Elementary schools getting ready for English

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Japan: Asahi.com notes that English, for the first time, will soon be part of the nation’s public elementary school compulsory curriculum. Beginning in 2011, one English class a week will be compulsory for fifth- and sixth-graders, according to a revision to Ministry of Education curriculum guidelines. Officially regarded as foreign language “activity” rather than [...]

Making English ‘king’ in schools again

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Malaysia: For Filipinos acutely aware that their country lags behind its neighbouring economies, proficiency in English has been a source of pride and a highly bankable asset. But, by a wide consensus, that has deteriorated over the years. The decline is part of a wider malaise afflicting an underfunded education system, grappling with overcrowded [...]

Templates for your TEFL Website

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Today I was looking for a few new wordpress themes for my Blogs and eventually I found this site: DreamTemplate. I was surprised to see the amount of quality web templates they have. Not only that, they offer many variety of graphic products, icons, flash web templates, navigation interfaces, etc. and they keep on [...]

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