TeachingEnglish newsletter 14 October 2015

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 14 October 2015 Welcome to the latest newsletter from TeachingEnglish! This week we announce a new free online course developed by the University of Southampton and the British Council, 'Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching'. We also have an interesting blog by Larissa Albano in which she describes practical activities and tools for you to use with or without technology. For the classroom, we have a useful article about assessing young learners, a simple yet challenging activity 'One word story' to use with teens or adults, and an interesting article on the implications of global English for the teaching of pronunciation. The featured professional practice from our new CPD framework this week is 'Integrating ICT', and if you are looking to up your skills in this area, check out our 'Learning Technologies for the Classroom' course. And finally, at TeachingEnglish we are always looking for ways to improve our newsletter so you get the information and resources you need. To this end we are considering replacing the current general newsletter with three different newsletters aimed at teachers of primary, secondary or adult students. As a result so you would only receive information that is relevant to your teaching. What do you think? Is this a good idea? Let us know by completing the short survey here We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Find out more about assessing younger learners by reading this informative article 'Ongoing assessment - fun not fear!' Jenny Bedwell gives some examples of practical assessment activities which she has used with 8-9 year- olds.  Read the article Teaching teens 'One word story' is a simple, creative activity where each student adds a word to create a group story. Despite the simplicity it can be really challenging and is appropriate for use with higher level learners.  Go to the activity Teaching adults The emergence of so many different kinds (or 'varieties') of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of English. This article presents Jennifer Jenkins' research into the pronunciation of global English and gives some teaching implications. Read the article Development This week we feature the professional practice from our new CPD framework 'Integrating ICT'. Find resources to help you with this professional practice. Integrating ICT And check out our 'Learning Technologies for the Classroom' course if you are relatively inexperienced in using technologies in the language classroom, but want to get ahead. Find out more   Events What is language? How do we learn meaning in a new language? What is easy and hard about learning another language? And what is the best way to teach other languages? This free online course 'Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching' developed by the University of Southampton and the British Council, and starting 19 October suggests some answers to these questions. Find out more Magazine In many developing countries schools are not equipped with new technologies and resources are limited. But is it the case that teaching performance would improve in a digital classroom? Our success in the classroom depends on our abilities to adapt the resources available in the most beneficial way. Read Larissa Albano's blog 'With or without technology' to discover activities you can do and tools you can use with or without technology. Read Larissa's blog You have received this newsletter because you registered on our website or previously showed interest in British Council news. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters please unsubscribe here.

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