The ELT Buzz News Report
All the recent "buzz" in English language teaching. Nov. 7th.
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Dear ELT Professionals,
Here is this week’s ELT Buzz News Report.
My reading tip this week is Thomas Rademacher’s fine reflection on his own teaching career - Leaving Teaching Is Hard But Not As Hard As Staying. A beautiful reflection about our teaching profession and its demands, pressures and yet beauty.
David
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This Week’s ELT "Buzz“
Undoing Competence - A paper offering a critique of appropriateness to the very notion of competence itself with a specific focus on notions of communicative competence developed by Dell Hymes.
TESOL Today - The Applying Tesol blog takes a look at English language teaching today and offers a thesis on what is happening and where it is at. Part 1.
Text Chat - This is a new, easy to use text chat animator. Teachers prepare their dialogues in the animator and export as videos for class instruction. Or get students to write out and present their own conversations.
Interviewing Tasks - Interviews are a powerful way to get students practicing and learning English. Here are some tasks you can ask students to undertake.
What Is A Troll? - Geoff Jordan writes about his experience being labeled a troll and sends a cautionary note about cancel culture and how it is often on the wrong track and side of truth.
A Pronunciation Game - Ross Thorburn shares his favorite game for pronunciation practice - Connect 4. What do you think about this game?
Teaching Chunks - The Barefoot TEFL Teacher looks at "chunks", what they are, how important they are to teach and how to teach them. See our resource focusing on chunks - Get Talking.
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