Fads, trends and robots taking over the world! This is a summary of the #eltchat held at 12noon BST on Wednesday 20th June, 2012. The full title of the chat was: ‘The Next Big Thing – what is it? Is ELT becoming a fad-driven profession?’ I have to admit that I wasn’t particularly inspired…
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This summary was contributed by Davied Petrie, alias @teflgeek and was first posted on his blog. It is reproduced here with his permission Thanks, David!!! The original topic was “Reconciling dogme and an unplugged approach with situations where formal assessment plays a key role in student motivation”, rather long for a blog post title,…
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This summary was contributed by James Taylor – @theteacherjames on Twitter – and was first posted on his blog. It is rerpoduce here with his permission. Thank you James! Unfamiliar with the terms Dogme or teaching unplugged? Try this article. Ever since the term was first appropriated by Scott Thornbury back in…
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It was a great week for #ELTchat with an absolute flood of ideas, thought and view during both of the chat sessions. We asked Richard, a new participant in ELTchat for his views on the pronunciation session and he obliged with some insightful comments and ideas. Vicky Loras kindly took the time to review the…
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