#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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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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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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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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[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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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 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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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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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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Vote for a Topic & Join #ELTchat! .[polldaddy poll=7908783] Photo Credit: Lucy Nieto via Compfight cc Please bear in mind that if you are proposing a topic you should try and join the chat if it is chosen (though time zones can make that difficult). Please also note that the chat moderators do monitor the voting. Cases of…
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