British Council TeachingEnglish 20 June 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter  20 June 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 Adrian Underhill, Jamie Keddie and Michael Swan. LearnEnglish Teens 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 to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have two new seminars from our series on areas of contemporary interest in the field of English language teaching and learning. Firstly Michael Carrier discusses handheld mobile learning, then Sally Farely talks about working with dyslexic students.   For the classroom this week we have a very topical lesson on football from our English for the Games series, followed by a student centred dictation method to try with any level.   Our current top stories look at two publications which are now available online: the June edition of Humanising Language Teaching and English Language Teacher Education and Development, Volume 14.    Bye for now.   Sally   TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Re-defining access to language learning: using handheld and Mobile Learning Michael Carrier talks about how phones, tablets and other touch screen devices  can be used to maximize learning and 'break down the walls of the classroom'. He explains how this technology can be used by teachers and students and gives us an overview of handheld learning. Read more Identifying and working with dyslexic students Sally Farley talks about supporting dyslexic students of all ages. She focuses on the strengths of students with dyslexia and how these impact on learning activities. She also suggests some techniques that we can employ in the language classroom.  Read more  English for the Games: Football       In this lesson students learn about football as an Olympic event. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport. The lesson helps students develop their reading and speaking skills, and provides practice of the modal verbs 'must' and 'can'. Read more  Stop, go back dictation  This is a dictation activity which pushes students to make sense of the language they hear by writing it down as accurately as possible. Different to traditional dictations, the learners themselves control the dictation. Suitable for classes of any level, this activity demands little preparation. Read more  Humanising Language Teaching: June edition available on-line  The June edition of Humanising Language Teaching is available on-line. This edition contains an article by Alan Maley about creative writing for students and teachers as well as articles on listening, the ideal teacher and how not to teach reading. Read more English Language Teacher Education and Development, Volume 14 available online ELTED is an annual, freely available, peer-reviewed journal for the worldwide ELT community which is produced by the English Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment (ELLTA) Research Group of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.    Read more

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