Posts Tagged ‘ELT’
British Council
British Council Founded in 1934 and granted a charter in 1940, the British Council is an independent, non-political organization that receives government funding and generates fee income. Its mission is to promote worldwide knowledge of the English language and all aspects of British culture and the British ‘way of life’. This it does by [...]
Linguistics
Linguistics Although many Americans consider this an abstract field, the study of language and meaning has, in fact, become a center for interdisciplinary interests and discussion. Its reach includes fields of communication and information processing linked to artificial intelligence and computers, questions of cognition and development from [...]
Teaching Dialogues
Teaching Dialogues Steps: 1. Set the scene - Stick figures. - Flannel board figures - A nice picture showing the situation - Puppets 2. Teacher reads the dialogue at normal speed once or twice and indicates the speaker. Students’ books are closed. 3. The teacher reads the dialogue again sentence by sentence. The students are put [...]
Five Hypotheses of Language Acquisition
Five Hypotheses of Language Acquisition 1. Acquisition-Learning Distinction Older learners have two distinct and independent ways of developing competence in a foreign language. a. Langage acquisition is a subconscious process. There is implicit, informal, and natural learning. Acquisition is picking up a language. b. Language leaning [...]
Language Acquisition vs. Foreign Language Learning
Language Acquisition vs. Foreign Language Learning Acquisition is the natural, inherent, subconscious experience all native speakers undertake as they pick up their own language. The child has an inborn capacity for language acquisition. This psycholinguistic acquisition experience is universal and occurs in both first and foreign language [...]
The Teacher (Don’t’s)
The Teacher (Don’t’s) • Don’t get to class unprepared make a lesson plan • Don’t be inconsistent • Don’t be unfair. Try to love all of them and don’t have favourites. • Don’t raise your voice. A soft voice is much more effective. • Don’t have a nagative attitude towards learning • Don’t break the code if [...]
