IPA: The theory and beyond. Is knowing the IPA essential? Do you use phonemic script in class? Why or why not? #ELTchat Summary 22/02/2012
Full title of #ELTchat on February 22nd 12.P.M. GMT This summary was contributed by Rachel Appleby, alias @rapple18 Introduction Dealing with pronunciation in the classroom is one of those things that comes naturally to some, is consciously avoided by others, and is a bit of a bête noir for a few. We know these symbols are
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Monitoring, Feedback and Debriefing: When and how to do it in class #ELTchat Summary 15/02/2012
The #ELT chat topic on Wednesday, 15th February was on Monitoring, Feedback and Debriefing: when and how to do it. These issues in teaching are of equal importance just as practising any other skill in class. As this could be a sensitive issue, the teacher has to be really careful how she approaches the students
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How to help students remember and reuse functional language #ELTchat Summary 01/02/2012
This is a summary of the #eltchat which took place at 12noon GMT on Wednesday 1st February, 2012. Thanks to Andrea Wade, alias @worldteacher for posting it on her blog World Teacher and giving us permission to repost here. Summary – Remembering & Reusing Functional Language I was joining the chat for the first time since
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How can we focus language teaching more at discourse level rather than sentence level? #ELTchat Summary 04/01/2012
Somewhat delayed, this is a double-barrel summary where two different #ELTchatters contributed at different times. The first one was kindly contributed by Patrick Andrews alias @PatrickAndrews and the second one by David Pietre alias @tefkgeek on his blog TEFLGEEK! Thanks Patrick and David!!! Summary 1 by Patrick Andrews The discussion started with definitions of discourse. @MarisaC
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Critical Thinking in Teacher Development – Summary of #ELTchat on 08/02/2012
Summary of #eltchat 8th Feb: Critical Thinking in Teacher Development by Damian Williams Photo: Farconville / FreeDigitalPhotos.net First and foremost, I should ‘fess up’ about my motives in participating in #eltchat this morning (my time, anyway). have just submitted my proposal for a talk at the 13th Braz-TESOL national convention in my home town of
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Summary of #eltchat: Differences in approaches between regular classes and those with an exam focus (FCE, CPE, IELTS…)
Summary of #eltchat: Differences in approaches between regular classes and those with an exam focus (FCE, CPE, IELTS…) by Lisa Philips – @ljp2010 on Twitter Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 9pm GMT The discussion kicked off by asking participants if they taught exam classes in a different way to other classes such as General English.
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What steps are part of the process of designing a syllabus? What knowledge & skills do teachers need? Summary of #ELTchat 25/01/2012
Summary of #ELTchat on January 25th 2012, 21.00 P.M. GMT By Toula Sklavou/@toulasklavou I recently completed and passed my Delta Module 3 assignment which involved designing a syllabus for a one-to-one exam prep course, so I felt that I would be able to contribute to this #ELTchat in a positive way and share my research
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#ELTChat summary on False beginners
Congratulations to all participants of this ELTChat above all others! Why? Well, from the word (hashtag?) “go”, there seemed to be some debate over what exactly a false beginner is, but NONE of the participants reached for the Google + copy + paste link option! Hooray! An ELTChat without 253 links? Gettaway. Yup. And hence
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How to help ‘slow learners’ inside and outside classroom?
How to help ‘slow learners’ inside and outside classroom? Summary of Jan 11th #ELTchat by Vicky Saumell @vickysaumell How do we define ‘slow learners’? Are they really slow or just slower to what we are used to? Does nationality matter? /@ELTExperiences I think labelling sb ‘slow’ is not good /@Shaunwilden “slow” – inefficient? Ineffective?
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networks for Language Teachers #ELTchat Summary 18/01/12
Does this look familiar?? To –ing or not to –ing……that is today’s question! One of my students asked me last month why we use the –ing form for blogging, networking, computing…..Good question! My answer? Because technology is constantly changing and plus usually these actions are constant, happen often, plus they are amusing but
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#ELTchat Summary:Your experience using needs analysis with adult learners in EFL
#ELTchat Summary:Your experience using needs analysis with adult learners in EFL by @SueAnnan from her blog Your experience using needs analysis with adult learners in EFL: The ifs, whys and hows. ______________ Let’s start with the IFs and HOWs I asked how many of us used some form of Needs Analysis
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M-learning – an #eltchat summary from 11.01.2012
This is the summary of eltchat on 11.01.2012 on the topic of m-learning which first appeared on my blog. As a lot of the people taking part seemed to have got an ipad from Santa, the chat was very smart device orientated with lots of apps being suggested along with tips for their use. Therefore
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How much does taking part in webinars & workshops actually change ways of doing things in the classroom #ELTchat Summary 07/12/2011
This summary was contributed by Yitzha Sarwono @yitzhasarwono and is published here with her permission (and many thanks!) A webinar, or web seminar, is a presentation, lecture , workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the web with the internet as the ‘magic’ making it all happen. This means that no matter where you live
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How to Deal with Students who are about to fail #ELTchat Summary 03/12/2011
This is a summary of the #eltchat that took place at 12pm GMT on November 30 2011. Dealing with Failure Chatters from a range of backgrounds and contexts, business English classes, private language schools, universities, mainstream secondary and primary school, offered a variety of different perspectives on the topic and on evaluation and failure
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The ELT teacher’s life cycle #ELTchat summary 14/12/2011
The ELT teacher’s life cycle: where are you and where should you be given qualifications & experiences; what can you do next? (an #eltchat summary) Moderators: @Shaunwilden @Marisa_C @ShellTerrell It was only my second time taking part in #eltchat at the 9pm session on 14th December 2011 (and I’m a first time summary writer) but it
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