Category: Summary

A PLN for ELT Professionals

Demand High and Dogme – brothers in arms or distant cousins?

Reposted from the amodisco blog By carolyn kerr ¶ Posted in ELT ¶ Tagged DHelt, Dogme, ELT Methodology, ELTChat ¶ 4 Comments This post is a summary of the ELTChat of January 16 2013 : So what there is to be up in arms about? The ethos behind it is that ELT has become too lightweight, too frivolous and not rigorous enough, as I understand it. @theteacherjames…
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Pause button for #ELTchat

Dear #ELTchat folk, Shall we come back or let go?  We noticed how participation dropped in recent months and, coupled with us getting busier and busier, out of sheer disappointment, we decided to press the pause button. It’s taken us a while to recover and we are still not fully recovered but the COVID19 pandemic…
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#ELTchat Summary Wednesday 13 March 2019 Project-based Learning

from Teachthough blog post “13 Brilliant Outcomes Of Project-Based Learning” Participants @Marisa_C @SueAnnan @fionaljp @JonjoTESOL @Michael37093679 @ClareBurke_ELT @patrickelt What is Project-Based Learning (PBL)? @jonjoTESOL and @fionaljp started the chat by deciding a good place to start would be with a definition. @fionaljp tweeted a link to a post by Katherine Bilsborough on the British Council…
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To what extent is teaching just about personality? #ELTchat Summary for 27/03/2019

A collaborative summary written by trainee teachers at Université Grenoble Alpes DU Formation des formateurs programme This is the second time that trainee teachers from the Université Grenoble Alpes joined the #ELTchat. This time they also participated in the topic suggestion and voting process. Ten out of fourteen trainees attended the discussion and contributed to…
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Project Based Learning – summary of #ELTchat in June 2018

The summary was written by Khalil Zakari – @kzakari on Twitter – and is reproduced here with his kind permission Introduction “Project-Based Learning” deservingly got the top vote on suggested topics list (June, 11th, 2018) @ELTchat. The chat started with a series of suggested tentative definitions of and thought-provoking questions about PBL as a formative…
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Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers an #ELTchat Summary 30/05/2018

This summary is posted rather late, possibly because it was in a new format which we tried to figure what to do with – but eventually we thought about it and decided why not post as is. After all, #ELTchat is responsive to its member requests and comments on what topic of ELT to cover,…
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Teacher Talk #ELTchat Summary 06/06/2018

“Teacher talk” is everything you say when you’re in the classroom.  There is a lot of research into the types and function of teacher talk and we have had two more chats about it – here they are:  Effective ways to minimize Teacher Talk Time and maximize Student Talk Time. Transcript Summary  If teachers talked less wouldn’t the…
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Good Language Learners and their Characteristics #ELTchat Summary 23/05/2018

This #ELTchat was created to review the knowledge gained from ‘good learner studies’ in the 80’s. From the word go, all the participants expressed objections as to the use of the term ‘good’ and suggested we use ‘effective’ – for the purposes of this summary, I shall leave the original title in place. This summary…
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How will #Brexit affect the ELT industry? #ELTchat Summary 29/06/2016

by Marisa Constantinides 2 years ago How will #Brexit affect the ELT industry? #ELTchat on 29/06/2016 MarisaConstantinides@Marisa_C #ELtchat now – How will the Uk’s departure from the EU affect the EFL industry? 2 YEARS AGO Glenys Hanson@GlenysHanson Hi Marisa. I’m not directly concerned but sympathise with those who are. #ELTchat 2 YEARS AGO MarisaConstantinides@Marisa_C @GlenysHanson Hello Glenys – many…
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DJ Matthew’s #ELTchat Topics for June/July 2017

For the next four weeks DJ Matthew Noble will be on the 1s and 2s “spinning” the hottest teaching topics for #ELTchat Wednesdays – topics that’ll make you wanna dance (intellectually) and groove (reflectively) with your fellow teachers in the #ELTchat disco. Of course, this DJ *does* consider requests, so please keep on keepin’ on suggesting topics on the #ELTchat…
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