ELT Buzz News Report
All the "buzz" this week in English language teaching. Sept. 18th.
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Dear ELT Professionals,
A little “buzz” from this week in English language teaching below.
My tip this week isn’t an article, it’s a webinar, Sept. 21st. The topic is the role of technology in personalized learning. Should be interesting.
David
Teacher Founder - ELT Buzz
This Week’s ELT "Buzz“
Don’t Leave Us - The EL Gazette reports on a school that forcibly restrained a foreign student from leaving the school and switching to another one.
Cell Phones & Learning - Sugata Mitra, TED prize winner argues that we should allow students not just open book exams and tests but open phone tests. Agree?
Post-Humanism ELT - English Up looks at some recent talks at the British Association of Applied Linguistics 2022 conference and how they challenge and ask us for a "rethunk" of language teaching.
Video & Learning - New research supporting the use of video in the classroom and how its use affects learning outcomes.
Current Events In Class - Some thoughts and activities that use summarizing to full effect in the language classroom.
Never Explain - The Language Point blog offers up the advice that language teachers should never "explain" about language and offers some strong arguments in favor of implicit teaching.
Teens And Writing - The Cambridge blog offers teachers some wise advice for planning writing lessons when the class is full of teenagers.
Video Lessons - 3 Teens That Changed The World
An inspiring video about 3 teenagers who made a big difference. After watching, get students to research their own teen that did something special.
