What would you like to talk about on #ELTchat on January 11?
Time to vote
The highest polling suggestions from last week that were not chosen will automatically be added to this week’s poll if there aren’t enough new topics – but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat!
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Looking forward to you ideas for some great
topics for our next chats
ddd
8 Responses
How to help slow learners inside and outside classroom?
Suggestions on designing remedial classes for young learners; 11-13
This topic is the one on which I would like to develop myself professionally. —
How to deal with different aptitude levels in EFL classes.
What’s our main goal as 21st century educators: maximise our Ss’ affordance potential or prepare them for grammar-based exams? – How do we (re)act to this issue?
Following Burcu Tezcan-Unal’s @burcutezcanunal great blogpost on ‘6 Tips to kill learner autonomy in EFL’, I suggest discussing ways we can enliven (enourage, enable, promote) LEARNER AUTONOMY
http://btezcan.edublogs.org/2012/01/08/6-tips-to-kill-learner-autonomy-in-efl-learner-autonomy/
I would like ,how communicative language teaching is very important nowadays.
Hi Lesley,
We discussed learner autonomy on 30.03.2011 . I think the topic angle is almost the same? If you think it isn’t then I’ll happily add it next week.
Shaun
Hi Abker,
Thank you for your suggestion, we discussed the communicative approach on 06.07.2011 and I think the topic was almost the same – if you think we should still discuss CA then please resuggest the topic next week.
Shaun
Thanks Shaun, I thought Learner Autonomy had probably been done before, but I was on posting from my phone and it was difficult to search – sorry! I had missed that chat last March, and there wasn’t a summary done by the look of things, which is probably why I didn’t remember it. But it was many months ago and we’ve had topics repeated before, so if you don’t mind could you put it to the vote next week to see if there’s any interest? I think the issues mentioned in @burcutezcanunal’s blogpost http://btezcan.edublogs.org/2012/01/08/6-tips-to-kill-learner-autonomy-in-efl-learner-autonomy/ are worth discussing.
Cheers, Lesley
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