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TeachingEnglish Newsletter

19 December 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, Carol Read and Michael Swan.

LearnEnglish Teens

Welcome to our new website with material especially designed for teenage learners.

LearnEnglish Kids
Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories.

LearnEnglish
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.

Premier Skills

Communicate in two of the world's global languages - English and football

English Agenda
The British Council's UK home for ELT and research

Apologies for resending this week's newsletter, but we would like to remind you that the live-streamed Dickens event takes place tonight 1800 - 2020 GMT. You can register for this special event here

This week our top story is about Edmodo, the fast-growing social media network site for teachers and learners. We also have 2 new seminars - Beyond CALL and A Short History of ELT and news about the Best of British Language Teaching Conference in Mexico.

We also have a selection of most-read articles from 2012 free for you to download. And for the classroom, a series of activities to start off the New Year.

The TE newletter will be taking a break over the festive period but we will be back with more great ideas on January 9th. Enjoy!

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Edmodo - social media network for teachers and students reaches 15 million users

Edmodo, the social network for teachers who want to share with other teachers or with students, has reached the 15 million subscriber mark. There are now 1.3 million teacher members at more than 120,000 schools. Edmodo promotes anytime, anyplace learning and allows teachers to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, share content and materials, and network and exchange ideas with their peers.

Beyond computer assisted language learning

This presentation by Huw Jarvis seeks to probe some of our established frameworks within the field of computer assisted language learning (CALL) and suggest an emerging alternative. In an era of ever-increasing digital devices locating our work exclusively within "computer" assisted learning is somewhat problematic. Recent studies suggest a shift to Mobile Assisted (language) Use. The presentation discusses all of these issues in relation to implications for classroom practice.

A Short History of ELT

This talk by Dr Richard Smith provides a fast-paced, informative chronology of ELT developments which counteracts some common myths and raises issues for critical reflection.

Free research articles to download from Language Teaching

As the year begins to come to a close, Language Teaching has brought together a selection of the most downloaded articles of 2012, available free-of-charge. Visit the site to find out more.

Best of British English Language Teaching conference (BBELT)

The "Best of British English Language Teaching" conference (BBELT) will take place 25th and 26th January 2013 at Gran Meliá México Reforma, Mexico City. BBELT is an academic forum aimed at introducing the latest trends and innovative techniques in ELT via interactive presentations, talks and workshops.

New Year's resolutions

A series of activities to start off the New Year such as reviewing the year, talking about traditions, New Year resolutions and ways of celebrating. The materials, teachers' notes and weblinks are available for each activity.