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Tweet United Kingdom: Academia’s leading language exam has won favour among immigration authorities, but that could be about to change if calls for more diversity in assessment gain a hearing, reports Max de Lotbinière at the Guardian. With international student mobility has booming in recent years, so has the number of candidates taking the Ielts [...] Tweet United States: For over a decade now, notes the New York Times, researchers have documented the effects of language barriers on health care. Patients who speak English poorly or not at all face longer hospital stays, an increased risk of misdiagnoses and medical errors, and decreased access to acute and preventive care services, often [...] Tweet Venezuela: Inside Costa rica notes that a meeting on Cross-cultural Bilingual Education and Linguistic Rights will be held on Thursday in the capital, attended by Venezuelan teachers of the indigenous Karina, Yekuana, Pemon, Piapoco, Sanema, Jivi, Enapa, Wotuja, and Warao people. The meeting will take place at the Cultural Diversity House in Bolivar City [...] Tweet India: Though not a conventional laboratory with scientific equipment and the like, the Language Laboratory at the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) is well equipped to impart language training, suggests the Times of India. Established in 2007, the laboratory teaches five languages-English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. The authorities now are looking at [...] Tweet South Korea: I’m all for a bit of nurturing. The International Graduate School of English (IGSE), specializing in fostering English language experts, puts its priority on nurturing English teachers and experts who can communicate fluently in the language, declares the Korea Times. IGSE President Park Nahm-sheik, pledged that his school will produce a [...] Tweet China: According to the Wall Street Journal, Mickey Mouse has a new job in China: teaching kids how to speak English at new schools owned by Walt Disney popping up in the bustling city. The company says the initiative is primarily about teaching language skills to children, not extending its brand in the world’s [...] Tweet ‘Methods of teaching foreign languages’ is the latest in the series of free downloadable articles giving background information on the TEFL profession.This article looks at methods of teaching foreign languages: The grammar translation method, The direct method, The audio-lingual method, Communicative language teaching, Language immersion, Minimalist/methodist, Directed practice, Learning by teaching (LdL) and the [...] Tweet South Korea: The Joongan daily notes how Art-One Society, an early-childhood education institute set up this March in Yangjae, southern Seoul, is representative of a trend sweeping Korea: exposing children to English as young as possible. What distinguishes the institute from other English hagwon, or private institute in Korean, for pre-school kids is [...] Tweet Pakistan: Speakers have said that the ‘great divide’ between English language and literature was harming the cause of teaching English and this gap between the two should be bridged keeping personal egos aside. ‘The lack of initiative to come to an amicable understanding will hurt the interests of both the students and the teachers,’ [...] Tweet United Arab Emirates: The Polyglot Language Institute, located near Al Nassr Square, in the heart of Dubai’s commercial district, is where Russians shop for fur jackets, people lunch at Iranian restaurants and where you can purchase sleek but inexpensive Indian watches, notes GulfNews. On the street you can hear myriad of languages being [...]  |
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