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TeachingEnglish newsletter 26 October 2016

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26 October 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we are pleased to announce the winner of our competition for the Teaching for Success Online Conference!

For the classroom we have activities and lesson plans around the theme of Halloween, which is celebrated on 31 October in many countries around the world.

Our featured recorded talk from our recent online conference this week is Gavin Dudeney's 'Integrating ICT: the case for mobile'. 

We also announce a new publication by Anne Burns and Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton - 'Using action research to explore technology in language teaching: international perspectives'.

And finally, if you haven't already done so, don't forget to complete our survey 
on ideas for a new series of video tips for the website.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

In this lesson, students will practise Halloween vocabulary, and sing a song or watch a story. Depending on stages chosen, they will then invent an animal skeleton, write a spooky story, play a Halloween game, or invent a magic potion. Finally, they will make a paper skeleton, then write and talk about it. 




Teaching teens

Halloween is celebrated on 31st October and is becoming increasingly popular amongst teenagers across Europe. This lesson plan focuses on a series of activities designed to focus on different skills, all related to Halloween. The activities can be adapted, so choose the most suitable for your group, taking into account their language levels and interests.


Teaching adults

As Halloween approaches, why not try this creative writing activity - A dark and stormy night - with your adults learners? Although the main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, it is also good for developing listening and reading skills and practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary. Students use their imaginations to build up a character profile, and then work cooperatively to develop the storyline. 


Development

'Using action research to explore technology in language teaching: international perspectives' is a new publication by Anne Burns and Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton which provides an investigation of the processes and practices involved in conducting action research on the use of ICT and new technologies in the classroom as experienced by 12 teachers located across different international contexts, from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.



Events

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Gavin Dudeney's talk - Integrating ICT: the case for mobile. Gavin looks at ten reasons why mobile and handheld learning (mLearning) may have a greater chance of success than any other technology we have implemented in the past.
Over the course of those ten points, he examines mLearning through an institutional lens, and through the lenses of both the learner and the teacher, in order to judge whether mLearning is, finally, the EdTech solution we have been waiting for.

Magazine

We are very pleased to announce that the winner of our competition for the Teaching for Success is Nitin Prabhune. Nitin attended our recent online conference and wins a place on our Starting E-moderating online teacher training course, which began on 20 October. Congratulations Nitin - we hope you get a lot of out of the course!



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