May 1st ELTChat Summary: What are your criteria for evaluating web based tools? Summary contributed by Sue Annan – @sueannan on Twitter and first appeared on her blog The moderators of #ELTchat are still working their way through the wealth of material available from the video sessions of IATEFLonline. This week was no exception and the discussion…
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Thanks to the Secret DoS for the summary. Officially we were gathered to discuss how research in the classroom was done and how it was then used for the improvement of teaching. I’m not overly confident that we fulfilled this aim, but we didn’t wander too far off topic for the hour allotted to (by?)…
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A couple of weeks ago, the seemingly popular topic of moving from Teacher (T) to Teacher Trainer (TT) was hotly discussed by the #ELTchatters. Entering into a New Year means reflecting on our future dreams or ambitions. This topic was proposed by Sharon Noseley (@shaznosel) as she felt she needed to reach out to her fellow…
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Okay, I’m happy to hold my hand up and admit that this topic was my suggestion. My daughter is about to start teaching in China, and her classes will contain around 40 students each. Not able to give her advice from my own experience, I turned to the experts who take part in #ELTchat on twitter every…
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The topic this week was: Materials evaluation: What would be your top tips for effectively evaluating materials for language teaching? What do you look for? What do you avoid? What influences your decisions in using or not using a given material? When we evaluate materials, we inevitably ask lots of questions. Turns out discussion…
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So, you are a teacher, looking for some on-line CPD (Continuous Professional Development)… Where do you start? I would like to recommend #ELTchat, which takes place on twitter each Wednesday at either 12.00GMT or 21.00 GMT. There you will find many English Language Teaching professionals happily sharing knowledge and experience. The subject of this Wednesday…
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This is a summary of an #ELTChat that took place on the 24th April, 9pm BST. We discussed flipped classrooms in language teaching. If you’re keen to find out more about #ELTChat, visit the website and join the discussion every Wednesday! 1. What the Flip? – Defining a flipped language classroom Rather than having the basic terms…
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At IATEFL Liverpool this year, there was special session where presenters were invited to come along and speak about the times in their life when things hadn’t gone as well as expected. The aim of the evening, as described on the IATEFL website was as follows: This IATEFL Failure Fest will focus on innovation in language…
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Screenshot of BNC home page – http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ This is a summary of an #ELTchat discussion which took place on 6 March 2013. The full topic title was ‘Using corpora in the classroom – teachers and learners, tips, ideas, best practices’, and was proposed by @LizziePinard. It takes quotes and opinions directly from the chat and generally…
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The Six Abilities for Competent Teachers – an #eltchat summary Following a discussion between @ShaunWilden and @Marisa_C at IATEFL 2013 in Liverpool last week, some changes were made to the way we select topics for #eltchat, as explained here. So, the chats on Wednesday 17th April were the first using the new procedure and, on this…
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