British Council TeachingEnglish 29 January 2014

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 29 January 2014            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, Adrian Holliday and Michael Swan. Online teacher training courses. Continue your professional development with our moderated and self-access training courses LearnEnglish Teens  Welcome to our 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 Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!    This week we have news of an upcoming webinar on the theme of wordlists for ESP and some useful tips on how to organise a conference. For the classroom we have a CLIL lesson for you to try and for your younger learners, lots of activities on the topic of school. Finally, we have a call for papers and a new publication which examines the language situations in West African nations. Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   A Content and Language Integrated Learning Lesson                                     There is no set format for CLIL lessons, the underlying principles being that language is used to learn as well as to communicate and that it is the subject matter which determines the language that students need to learn. However, this lesson also attempts to follow the 4Cs curriculum in that it includes Content, Communication, Cognition and Culture, and includes elements of all four language skills. Read more   Tips on how to organise a conference                                       Over at 'The Guardian', Brian Lucy provides some excellent tips on how to organise an academic conference. You can also read an article on TeachingEnglish about what makes a successful conference. Read more School                                         School is a topic which has a lot of potential for young learner teachers: it can be easily extended and should be revised frequently as students need the right language for work in the classroom. Read more   What do ESP teachers need to know about word lists for language learning and teaching?                                       This webinar by Averil Coxhead on 07 February, 18.00 UK time, focuses on the key points English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers need to know about using and evaluating word lists for language learning and teaching. Read more The English Language in Francophone West Africa                                  This publication examines the language situations in eight West African nations - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Togo. It describes the roles that English plays, ways in which English is taught, who teaches it, and how learners and their teachers perceive the language. Read more Technology in Language Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities - call for papers                               The BAAL Teaching Evaluation and Assessment SIG is holding a one-day conference on the theme of 'Technology in Language Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities' on Friday 2 May 2014, 10:00 - 16:45, University of Huddersfield, UK. The deadline for proposals is Friday 7 February 2014. Read more

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