The ELT Buzz News Report

All the "buzz" in ELT - October 8th.

Oct 08, 2023

Dear Teachers,

Our highlights of the “buzz” this week in ELT. See below.

My recommendation this week is this article on Oxford TEFL offering up a step by step guide for successfully planning and delivering a presentation to colleagues. Lastly, please check out our video lesson platform, always fresh. Sign up for our newsletter of new video lessons for a chance to win full access! A winner each week.

Thanks,
David - ELT Buzzer-in-Chief

ELT "Outloud"

We bring our first of many "outloud" podcast issues. Bite sized professional development you can listen to and take in. This one, Lessons For Teachers from the doc. My Octopus Teacher. Read more

Speech Assessment

The Eduling blog brings us a summary of a webinar titled - Understanding Language for Automated Assessment of Speaking by Dr. Okim Kang. Read more

Mobile Learning Revisited

The Adaptive Learning in ELT blog looks again at the issue of mobile learning in light of the cat calls of AI and ChatGPT. Read more

Materials Writing

Sandy Millin on the IH blog suggests 7 things to improve your materials writing as a teacher. Sound advice. Read more …

PD Thoughts

The Eduverse newsletter for October has an exclusive interview with David Deubelbeiss, our Buzzer-in-Chief about professional development for teachers and even where AI fit in there. Download and read.