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From EFL to ELF: Materials Writing for English as a Lingua Franca – A Summary – Clare's ELT Compendium As part of the Materials Writing SIG pre-conference event at IATEFL 2018, Marek Kiczkowiak gave a talk entitled “From EFL to ELF: Materials Writing for English as a Lingua Franca.” Now, I teach and write for an EFL setting – generally homogenous groups of speakers of German studying English Studies in English. Most of them intend to be EFL teachers themselves one day. But I found the talk interesting nonetheless and came away with a few ideas for updating my teaching materials to fit a more English as a lingua-franca (ELF) paradigm, which can benefit the students who are not aiming to be secondary-school EFL teachers here in Germany, but also without taking anything away from the others’ learning experience. (I have to say, a general sentiment that I had after the day, especially after this and Rom Neves’ talk, is that all learners can use materials written with those with specific needs in mind – no harm is done, so to speak, so why not?) Like this: Like Loading... Related Uncategorized
Readers Theatre Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students become excited and enthusiastic about reading when they are presented with the opportunity to participate in Readers Theatre. back to top Reader’s Theater Scripts and Plays: This website with an excellent compilation of scripts will get your students focused on reading texts with expression Kimbell-Lopez, K. (2003). The use of Readers Theatre can offer a different context in which students are exposed to texts focusing on poetry, science, social studies, or other content-related topics.Readers Theatre is another way to enhance comprehension of text, as well as to create interest in and enthusiasm for learning.The Readers Theatre format provides an opportunity for students to develop fluency through multiple readings of the text by using expressiveness, intonation, and inflection when rehearsing the text.
Emily Hird – Emily blogs Many teachers choose to incorporate traditional songs and rhymes in their English teaching. But what are the advantages of this? And are there any drawbacks to using this kind of authentic material? Why use traditional songs and rhymes? How to choose suitable songs Look for songs with a clear rhythm and a strong element of repetition.Wherever possible, choose songs with actions (For example: The wheels on the bus, Wind the bobbin up, Heads, shoulders, knees and toes, Incy wincy spider, Row, row row your boat, Here we go round the mulberry bush). What to watch out for When flicking through books of nursery rhymes, there are lots of traditional songs that I always feel deeply uncomfortable with. Sexism Many of the gender roles we see in traditional songs are just awful. This is the way the ladies ride… This is the way the gentlemen ride … The mummies on the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter… The farmer wants a wife. Polly put the kettle on… And so on, and so on. 2. Over to you
About | Recipes for the EFL Classroom Hello there! I am a teacher, CELTA Trainer and Academic Manager based in Cambridge, with most of my EFL career spent in Italy. On this blog I’ll be sharing activities I have found successful over the years. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there is also a culinary theme here, the years in Italy must have rubbed off on me. The ideas are either my own or have been passed onto me by other teachers and trainers I have worked with over the years. As with any recipe, these activities can be adapted, tweaked and seasoned to your own tastes and teaching contexts. Read the first blog post here for more information. Happy teaching and Buon appetito! Like this: Like Loading...
10 Tools & Resources for Developing Writing Skills Over the last couple of months I've found and written about a number of really great tools and resources to help improve our students' writing skills. This is a collection of links to reviews of ten of the best. 1. Free Reading Passages and Progress Tracking Tools This site was designed to help grade K5 - K12 native speaker students develop their reading and comprehension skills, but can also be really useful for second language development. Students can choose from a range of graded texts and get a wide range of interactive activities and reading support. 2. As a teacher you can create classes and assign writing tasks to students. 3. Getting students to peer evaluate can be a real organisational challenge in the classroom, but now it looks like there is a simple technological solution. 4. Newspaper Generator is a useful tool that enables you to create what looks like a newspaper front page. 7. 8. Text adventure games are a great way of really engaging students in reading. 9. 10. Best
Teaching Choices in Little Rock Choices in Little Rock focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957—efforts resulting in a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as “the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War.” Students explore civic choices—the decisions people, including young people, make as citizens in a democracy. Those decisions, both then and now, reveal that democracy is not a product but a work in progress, a work that is shaped by the choices that we make about ourselves and others. This unit is designed to promote students’ historical understanding, critical thinking, social-emotional learning, and civic agency. About the Unit Assessment The unit’s summative assessment has two parts, incorporating core elements of the C3 curriculum framework: Tools to Teach This Curriculum Student Materials The below digital resources are available to students—no login required! Choices in Little Rock Student Guide DOWNLOAD THE Guide DOWNLOAD THE Guide Journal