British Council TeachingEnglish 25 January 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 25 January 2012 The author of 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom, Carol Read is just one of the writers to have appeared in our regular series of Guest Writers. We are very pleased  that Carol will be returning to TeachingEnglish this month. English Language Assistants Find regular advice and classroom support for English language assistants. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Central Develop your English, with language games, downloads, stories and articles. BritLit The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom.  Welcome back! The 2012 TeachingEnglish blogathon is now well and truly under way and the site now has more blogs than ever before. Our users are blogging on a whole range of topics connected to teaching and learning English so why not have a look and leave your own ideas? Also this week we have a classic from the TeachingEnglish archive: The Inca: a lost society. The lesson can be used with adults and teenagers and makes use of original articles from the BBC. Also this week there is the opportunity to contribute to a worldwide survey that is looking at learners' use of their own language in the EFL classroom. The project is being run by researchers at Northumbria University and the Open University and they are keen to hear from you. Best wishes Duncan  TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   The Inca: A lost society   This is a reading lesson based on a text about Inca society. Reading can be a very solitary activity, but this lesson has been designed to maximise the amount of communication and interaction among the students, so that they work collaboratively and develop their own opinions about the content of the text. Read more  Language and literacy as social practice   Pauline Moon, with over 25 years experience in EFL and ESOL, uses activities and discussion to consider how this idea might help us to support learners to use the culturally situated language and literacy practices they encounter in daily life.   Read more Worldwide survey on use of learners' own language Would you like to contribute to a worldwide research project? Northumbria University and the Open University are investigating how learners' own language is used in ELT and TESOL classrooms around the world. The project, funded by the British Council, aims to look at what teachers think about the use of learners' own language in the ELT classroom and how this influences classroom practice. Read more Big Questions Under constructivist theory, learners should reflect on what they are learning in order to integrate new knowledge with the existing knowledge and in the result, achieve Synthesis. We have to encourage our students to reflect on the learning process that they will be aware of what they are learning and how they are learning.  Read more Approaches to teaching grammar This month we'd like to know how you approach teaching grammar. Teaching grammar is an important part of language teaching and there are different ways of approaching it - but which ways do you find most effective for you and your students? Read more

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