ELT Buzz News Report
November 22nd Edition
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Dear Teachers,
Here is a selection of highlighted news from this week in ELT.
My reading tip this week is an Edsurge article about free MOOCs - those massive, open, online courses and why they truly haven’t lived up to their potential.
This Week’s Highlighted "Buzz“
Changes To British English. Lancaster University writes about a recent study using corpora which found that major changes have been happening to British English in recent years.
EMI Shortcomings. Philip Kerr writes about EMI (English As A Medium Of Instruction) and notes how it continues to grow in popularity but with not so rosy results and many shortcomings.
Teaching English Online Summit. - Dec. 6th to 10th. Free. Use code ELTBUZZ if getting the All Access Pass. See you there! View »>
Hybrid Teaching. Sandy Millin shares some helpful links, resources, tools for hybrid teaching - teaching both online students and in-class students at the same time.
Beyond Phonemic Awareness. A research paper in Brain Science that provides clear evidence that awareness of phonemes develops only in the context of the development of alphabetic literacy and does not appear to be an integral part of humans biological preparedness for rapid, early, universal...spoken language acquisition. IPA not needed.
Video Lesson - The Life Of Bob Dylan
It’s Thanksgiving - check out the ELT Buzz Lesson Library for all our related lesson materials!
Enjoy your week!