ELT Buzz News Report

All the "buzz" in English language teaching. March 14th.

Mar 14

Dear ELTers,

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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