Many strands of ELT emphasise the importance of interaction, responding to students language needs in the moment and creating language-rich classrooms. In this talk I argue that while these are valuable approaches in principle, in practice they demand a lot of the teacher and teacher education and development programmes may not address these problem. I will suggest some tasks for teachers to develop their language awareness on an ongoing basis.
Stills and stories: Take a photo and…-Fiona Mauchline
04/02/2017 - 10:22
Picture this: students gazing out the window, imagining themselves after class, talking to friends or fantasizing about the weekend. Picture this: students who feel shy or inhibited when talking about themselves, at a loss for words. Picture this: heaps of ideas using photographs either taken by students themselves or from resources like #ELTpics to keep your students in the picture.
Listening attentively and listening to understand -Rose Bard
04/02/2017 - 10:17
In this presentation, the role of listening attentively and listening with the aim to understand is discussed. Both the teacher and the students miss important things during the class interaction. Once I understood that myself, I started making few changes that resulted in better comprehension of what was going on in the class as well as promoting more learning. In this webinar, I will suggest some practical ideas to promote better listening results, thus more engagement with the learning of English inside and outside the class.
English teachers working with teenage learners recognize that such individuals think and behave differently than those from previous generations. Welcome to Generation Y! These students were born into a world of information technology; they regularly multitask… and they trust the ideas of peers and web videos more than their teachers.
Generation Y is significant: it constitutes 20 percent of the world’s population. As Gen-Y occupies the young end of the population demographic, we can assume many second language learners belong to this group; it demands our attention and understanding.
Contemporary research on Gen-Y originated in developed nations, although examination is increasing throughout the world. Whereas Gen-Y has received much attention in the academic literature of many fields, this is not yet the case in ELT research. This lack of consideration is regrettable, as most Gen-Yers are currently English language learners. My talk addresses this shortcoming by explaining the nature of Gen-Y, while presenting teaching strategies aimed at engaging such learners.
Do you understand? – Effective ways of concept checking
02/02/2017 - 22:33
After you have introduced and clarified the meaning of new language, it might be a good idea to check your students have actually understood you. In the session we’re going to first look at 7 practical ways of doing it. Then we will discuss the pros and cons of each and highlight when they might (not) be appropriate to use. Finally, we are going to spend the rest of the session applying the techniques in practice, based on various examples which will cover not only individual words, but also grammar, collocations and register.
