Category: Summary

A PLN for ELT Professionals

Differentiated Instruction in Classes of Differing Ability #ELTchat Summary 22/10/2014

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Angelos Bollas TEFL on his blog Narratives of a TEFLER – reprinted here with his kind permision   #ELTchat is a group of ELT professionals discussing topics of interest every Wednesday at 12pm or 9pm on rotation. Every Saturday, one of the moderators puts up a blog post on the #ELTchat Blog asking teachers…
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Teaching English in a country other than yours: opportunities and challenges #ELTchat Summary 12/112014

#ELTchat is a weekly twitter chat for ELT professionals all over the world. Each Wednesday at 12pm or 21.00pm GMT a different teaching related topic is discussed. You can submit and vote for topics here: http://eltchat.org/wordpress/     This week’s topic was teaching English in a country other than yours: opportunities and challenges. Below is…
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How to Activate Passive Vocabulary With Advanced Students #ELTchat Summary 29/10/2014

November 18, 2014 by Angelos Bollas TEFL Leave a comment   #ELTchat is a group of ELT professionals discussing topics of interest every Wednesday at 12pm or 9pm on rotation. Every Saturday, one of the moderators puts up a blog post on the #ELTchat Blog asking teachers who follow #ELTchat to propose some topics for the next charts. #ELTchat followers…
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What makes the best homework for language learners? #ELTchat Summary 17/09/2014

Starting off   Marisa_C welcomed us all to this fourth birthday of the ELTChat. A momentous event! We determined the topic and fabenglishteach started off by saying: ‘Ah, to give or not to give HW?’   Marisa_C continued by more closely defining the topic by asking: ‘Homework or Busywork? That’s what some Ss call it.…
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CPD in the Age of the Internet: an #ELT Chat Summary 21/05/2014

The full text of the topic was:  Continued Professional Development in the Age of the Internet: who? what? why? when? The aim of the chat would be to look at how teachers continue their professional develop via online means as opposed to face-to-face courses and should question how this done, through what means, is it…
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Please Vote for #ELTchat on 04/06/2014

[polldaddy poll=8094713] Next #ELTchat on Wednesday 04/06 at 12:00 p.m. BST  Photo Credit: Bernat Casero via Compfight Propose a topic If you are proposing a topic, please make every effort to  join the chat if your topic  is chosen.  You can find out information about how to follow an #ELTchat here. Please also note that the chat moderators do monitor the voting. Cases of…
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Group Cohesion in the ELT class – #ELTchat Summary 30/04/2014

The full title of this chat was “How important is group cohesion in the ELT class? How can we best achieve it?”  and was first posted by Mary Sousa – @mary28sou – oner blog here Photo Credit: jakerome via Compfight   Summary As one participant expressed it: “Interesting topic…but BIG.” The 21 participants in this evening…
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The Benefits of Observations and Feedback #ELTchat Summary 4/16/2014

The full title of this chat was “Observations and Feedback: what do you get out of being observed and what makes good or bad feedback?” and was first posted on April 26, 2014 by @ashowski on his blog here    Summary As the chat began, the elephant in the room was clear: who exactly is…
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Sugata Mitra and the Future of Teaching – An #ELTchat Summary (09/04/14)

This summary was contributed by #ELTchat moderator James Taylor. You can follow James on Twitter at @theteacherjames and read his blog here.     On Saturday 5th of April at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, Sugata Mitra delivered a plenary session that proved to be acclaimed and vilified at the same time. I was in…
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Learner Oriented Assessment – #ELTchat Summary 19/03/2014

This ELT 1200GMT chat took place on Wednesday 19th of March. It involved a lot of healthy discussion and ELT professionals sharing, adapting and evaluating a variety of ideas and approaches to assessment in ELT. Here’s a summary of what was said. Getting Started     Initially, the discussion was taken slightly in the wrong…
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