ELT Buzz News Report
The "buzz" in English Language Teaching for Sept. 26th
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Dear ELT Professionals,
The “buzz” from this past week in English language teaching below.
My tip this week is a white paper detailing aspects of teaching bilingual learners with disabilities. Insightful. Also, see this paper on the subject.
David
Teacher Founder - ELT Buzz
This Week’s ELT "Buzz“
ELT Wellbeing - The Adaptive Learning in ELT blog takes another look at teacher wellbeing in English language teaching and concludes we have to do more than "the usual" to really make a difference.
TBLT Download - A Cambridge guide to task-based language teaching (TBLT), for language instructors, teacher educators, and other interested parties. Free to download until Oct. 7th.
SLA & The Classroom - Two Second Language Acquisition researchers search for the common ground between theoretical knowledge and what happens in the language classroom. A new book.
The Pygmalion Effect - David Weller writes about how teachers' expectations of their students can affect their grades (it's called the Pygmalion Effect). But did you also know that students' expectations of their teachers can affect the teacher's behavior?
Creativity In The Classroom - Our lessons should not only teach language but challenge students to develop their own skills in creativity.
Phones And Tests - 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.
Linguistic Racism - The THE blog looks into the issue of linguistic racism and outlines the many ways it can be damaging to international students studying abroad.
View all our latest posts and buzz in ELT here.
Video Lessons - Natural Disasters
This is a great feed and live news about current natural disasters around the world. Use and discuss with students, what’s happening with the weather in the world.
