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Encouraging Self-Directed Learning #ELTchat Summary 22/03/2017

This summary was contributed by Rachel Appleby and was taken from her blog here            Participants:     @fwalkerbcn@fionaljp @rapple18 @EdTechTV@GlenysHanson @Nafooh1988@TESOLacademic@faleh_muhammad @Marisa_C  [@SueAnnan in the background; missed, thanks to technology …  @angelos_bollas ] [Image from www.thegazelle.org/issue/63/opinion/ling-2]      This week’s topic was an area proposed by @ElleninEdmonton and @Nafooh1988       Preamble …  …
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Classroom Observations – how to use best to improve our teaching -Summary of #ELTchat on February 15th, 2017

This is a brief summary (mostly a glorified cleaned up transcript) of the #ELTchat on February 15th, 2017 Summary contributed by Mathew Noble on his blog – reproduced here with his kind permission or so we hope…. ~ : ~     The February 16th #ELTchat was on the topic “classroom observations and how we can…
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#ELTchat Summary The Best 2.0 Tools for Speaking Skills on 15 March 2017

Fiona Price, or @fionaljp on Twitter summarised and displayed the apps and tools mentioned in this talk very creatively!!!   Our mission was to explore the best tools for developing speaking skills and here are examples of what was mentioned along with some of the key tweets! Thank you FIona! Introduction with Tellagami  A very…
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How to deal with native students in an EFL classroom #ELTchat on 22/02/2017

    It happens that in countries such as Spain there are expat British/Irish/American students who attend to state schools and they have EFL lessons. Of course it’d be better if during that period they attended some other lesson, but sadly this doesn’t happen too often. So Some teachers make these students help them, as…
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How to deal with reading tasks in an active and entertaining way #ELTChat summary 11/01/17

For the first #ELTChat of 2017, we discussed the topic: “How to deal with reading tasks in an active and entertaining way”.   Some ideas:   fionaljp suggested doing webquests and shared the link to one stop English’s page which has topic-based webquests for teens including Shakespeare, Chinese New Year and La Tomatina.  MConca16 added…
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What is your favorite tool in English teaching or English learning? #ELTchat Summary 16/11/16

#ELTchat is a (more or less) hour-long conversation which takes place on Twitter every Wednesday at 20:00 GMT/UTC.   On Saturdays one of the moderators puts up a blog post where followers can propose topics for the following Wednesday. Once the moderators have reviewed the topics they create an online poll and #ELTchat followers are…
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Conversational skills in English may differ from a student’s L1 #ELTchat Summary 26/10/2016

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How to make teachers more comfortable with teaching pronunciation #ELTchat Summary 12/10/2016

How to make teachers more comfortable with teaching pronunciation #ELTchat Summary 12/10/2016   by Sue Annan @SueAnnan This was the latest #ELTChat summary on a topic which raised lots of interest.   Our moderator, Sue Annan, created a slideshow of the tweets in lieu of a prose summary – this post first appeared on Sue’s…
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How do we help students record new vocabulary? #ELTchat summary 05/10/2016

#ELTchat summary (5 Oct 2016) – How do we help students record new vocabulary? By Maria Conca- @MConca16  Watch movie online The Lego Batman Movie (2017)  Watch movie online The Lego Batman Movie (2017)  Watch movie online The Lego Batman Movie (2017) This week’s #ELTchat discussed various ways to help our learners record new vocabulary in…
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Is deviation from the coursebook a sin? How do we convince our managers that it isn’t? #ELTchat Summary 21/0/2016

    I’m happy and excited to post my first #ELTchat summary. This is the first time I participated in the chat though I’ve been a lurker for a while. The topic was quite relevant to my context and it was interesting to know how other teachers feel about it.     Teaching materials in…
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