ELT Buzz News Report
All the "buzz" in English language teaching. March 14th.
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Our weekly report and summary. Find it below.
This week, recommending this article from Nature - Why AI Needs To Recognize Consequences. A very important point is made about “causal inference”. Also, a great article about new teachers vs experienced teachers. An eye-opener.
David
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This Week’s ELT "Buzz“
Self-Paced Listening - The Adaptive Learning In ELT Blog looks at all the issues surrounding the efficacy of self-pacing, in particular with listening. Does self-pacing truly work and produce better student outcomes?
Indigenous Languages - The Language Magazine reports from Mexico about the government opening up a new university exclusively for indigenous languages. Mexico has over 60 indigenous languages in use.
Click. Teach. Repeat. - Rachel Tsateri shares her takeaways from a lecture about photography and teaching that she attended recently as part of her DELTA training.
Credentialism - We judge teachers too quickly based on their credentials. There is much more to evaluate, much more to the story.
Deliberate Learning - How much of student learning is deliberate (teacher directed) and how much is incidental, picked up outside of teaching objectives. This podcast investigates with Jeremy Harper.
Debate In Class - Resources and activity suggestions for using debate in your classroom.
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Video Lessons - 2023 Academy Awards
The winners are featured. Review with students, did their choices win? A great prompt and hook for a wider lesson about movies.
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