British Council TeachingEnglish 28 March 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 28 March 2012 Regular readers will know that the TeachingEnglish website has hosted a number of Guest Writers. Why not have a look at our archive where you can find articles and blogs by ELT luminaries such as Michael Swan, Dave Willis and Carol Read. 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! The TeachingEnglish team have just got back from the IATEFL conference in Glasgow. If you weren't able to attend the conference you can still catch up with what happened on the IATEFL Online site. If you're struggling to find something for your students this week you may be interested in two new lessons from the site. The first looks at the Olympic event the Equestrian and the second is called 'Yesterday' and helps students with 'wh' questions in the past. Finally if you're looking for something a bit more academic you may be interested in the release of our latest publication that examines how young learners develop their English skills.  Best wishes, Duncan  TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Equestrian    In this lesson students learn about equestrian events as an Olympic Sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sports. Students learn about equestrian events and associated vocabulary as well as improving their scanning skills.   Read more  Yesterday In this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering 'wh' questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity. The lesson comes with worksheets to help students develop their understanding of the past tense.  Read more Programme 8: Teaching new language This programme's topic is 'introducing new language' - introducing a grammar structure, a new tense or some vocabulary that the students haven't been taught before. When we teach, we might do it in three stages: first we present, then we get our students to practise, and then to use the new language confidently and accurately.  Read more EAP: how is it different from other forms of ELT? Trained and experienced ELT teachers sometimes report feeling deskilled when they first teach EAP. They may be unaware that the criteria they normally apply to identify needs or evaluate lessons are not necessarily the same in EAP. In this workshop Olwyn Alexander and Sue Argent show how EAP is different from ELT. Read more Early EFL learning in context - Evidence from a country case study   Children are starting to learn English at increasingly younger ages. This paper researches the phenomenon from a contextualised perspective.  Data were collected from 173 Croatian young learner students whose progress was followed for three years. The contextualised approach can offer broader and deeper insights into EFL learning. Read more The effects of teachers' errors on students' learning There is lots of debate about students making errors in the process of language learning. A large amount of literature treats the issue. It sounds like the teachers of English, especially non native teachers of English, are totally different creatures and free from errors. Read more

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