When I first saw what the topic was going to be, I was reminded of a withdrawn student of mine who, having returned from his summer holiday, proudly told me that he had voluntarily taken on the role of interpreter and helped a foreign tourist communicate (successfully!) with a souvenir vendor. So I half expected…
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[polldaddy poll=7575320] If you have an idea for a topic for Wednesday’s chat then leave it as a comment on the blog and we’ll include it in the poll once voting starts on Monday. The top choice in the poll will be discussed at 21.00 p.m. and the 2nd choice at 12.00 p.m. GMT. Each week we alternate…
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This #eltchat took place on Wednesday, 6 November 2013 from 12-1pm UTC time. Two questions were debated by 11 participants: whether CLT places greater focus on more confident learners; and CLT’s effect on quieter students. Early in the discussion it was clarified that the questions pertain to speaking. STUDENTS’ QUIETNESS This topic drew a…
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How can teachers prepare to give a talk at a conference? Summary It’s 10 pm and I’m impatiently waiting for another #eltchat. What’s the topic tonight? Did my choice win this time? With my fingers on the keyboard, I’m waiting for the sound of the starting pistol. Here comes Shaun Wilden and announces the topic of the…
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This is the summary of the #eltchat on October 16th, 2013 and was written by Rachel Appleby – @rapple18 Full title Freer practice: Ways of really getting sts to use TL (vocab, grammar, phrases) in tasks / exercises, and/as a means of showing visible progress (Sp, Wr) Getting students to talk – really communicate with each…
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Dealing with multi-aged English language classrooms When I saw the topic for #ELTchat on 9th October was Dealing with multi-aged classrooms, I wanted to take part, even though the second chat is now at 7am my time and I that’s when I’m out walking in the bush near my house. I struggled to keep up on…
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Greetings Eltchatters, As you know our blog was hacked at end of last week though thanks to Marisa we now have it back. However the downside of the hack was that we couldn’t properly ask and set up a poll for this week’s eltchat. We did have a couple of suggestions and have some topics…
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This is a summary of the 9pm BST #eltchat summary from Wednesday 26thJune 2013. The topic was ‘Classroom Discourse’ and the pre- reading was the post Classroom Discourse by Geoff Jordan. It was a bit of a slow, quiet chat with reasons ranging from long days and problems with TweetDeck to hot summer evenings! Definition…
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Strategies for a New Course – an #ELTChat Summary The summary was contributed by David Petrie – @teflgeek on Twitter – on his blog and is reproduced here with his kind permission Like the cuckoo heralding spring, the first #ELTChat of the year has arrived. As many teachers around the world are getting ready for their first lessons with…
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This is a summary of the second chat on Wednesday 11th September. The full title of the chat was: How can we tell if fossilization has set in and how do we prevent it or get out of such a state? it was contributed by Andrea Wade – @worldteacher and first appeared on her blog…
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