Category: Summary

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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How do you design good ICQs and CCQs?   When I saw the topic for #ELTChat was CCQs, I simply had to join. They were always one of the main points of feedback during my observations – CCQs a little untargeted, ambiguous, using target language etc. The bane of a small part of my existence…
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Vote for this week’s eltchat topic for Wednesday’s chat. [polldaddy poll=7885470]   The top choice in the poll will be discussed at 12 pm GMT  Wed 19 March Propose and join #ELTchat! Please bear in mind that if you are proposing a topic you should try and join the chat if it is chosen (though time…
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Entering and Exiting: The Importance of Beginning and Ending Lessons Well This is the summary of an #ELTchat which took place on 5 March 2014 and was first published on Sue Annan’s blog.   This was a lovely structured topic, as the writer had prepared a series of questions he wanted answered. Marisa_Constantinides started us off…
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This summary was contributed by Joanna Malefaki – @joannacre on Twitter, and was first posted on her blog Joanna Malefaki – My ELT Rambles – it is reproduced here with her kind permission ____________________________ Teaching English in the corporate World #ELTchat summary I started attending the #ELTchat on tiwtter (Wednesdays 12.00   or 21.00 GMT) after my tutor, Marisa Constantinides, suggested…
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Summary contributed by @NewbieCELTA and uploaded on Slideshare – he will post on his blog sometime soon with his own reflections – stay tuned “That Sinking Feeling” #ELTchat Summary from Matthew Noble

An interesting topic for the first late-night chat of 2014 which got lots of people madly typing away at their keyboards or keypads.   Photo Credit: Hartwig HKD via Compfight @Theteacherjames started off by adding to the above question with ‘How can introverted teachers satisfy their students’ expectations?’ which was answered by @hartle who asked ‘Do you have…
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#ELTchat,  a weekly Twitter chat for English Language Teaching professionals, returned on 22 January 2014 after the Christmas/New Year break.  The chat is now held once per week, every Wednesday, alternating between 12 noon and 9pm GMT each week.   ______________________________ For the latest news on #ELTchat and the latest topics up for voting, click here. _____________________________________________…
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The last two chats of the year presented an opportunity to recall some the most useful and inspiring chats of 2013. As a newcomer to ELTchat – I joined my first one in September – I’ve only taken part in these lively weekly discussions a couple of times, but as @theteacherjames says, one of the…
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