TeachingEnglish newsletter | | | Welcome to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter. We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom, a webinar and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful.
The TeachingEnglish team | | ELTons award winners 2018 | This year's ELTons Award Ceremony was broadcast live online on 18 June, and was hosted by lexicographer and star of Channel 4's Countdown Susie Dent. You can watch a recording of the ceremony and interviews with all the finalists here. You can also read about the winners of this year's ELTons Awards here. | | | Featured blog of the month for May 2018 | Our featured blog of the month award for May 2018 goes to Cecilia Nobre and her post 'How to teach conversational lessons'. Cecilia offers a nice and simple framework for conversation classes, some practical ideas and some useful links. Other shortlisted blogs were Tekhnologic, 'The Spinning Wheel', and Kasia Piotrowska's 'Songs in the classroom - wrong lyrics'. | | | Webinar: Coaching and emotional intelligence | Join us on Friday 29 June at 17.30pm UK time to celebrate the launch of the British Council’s Teacher Educator Online Community. In this webinar, Nik Peachey will be looking at some techniques and processes that are commonly associated with coaching and exploring how we can apply these to our work in teacher development. | | | A golden question: how much L1 should our learners use in class? | One strategy students utilise to help with learning English is occasionally using their native language (L1). But as teachers, we are tasked with making sure students are learning English, not excelling in their L1s. So how do we manage their use of L1 without interfering with their acquisition of L2? Sulaiman Jenkins discusses why learners use L1 and some possible ways of dealing with these situations here. | | | 'In the town' is a popular topic with young learners, as it is easy for them to relate to the situations and it provides many opportunities to practise using the language in a communicative and real context. In this role play workshop, learners have the opportunity to 'walk around town', visit different places and practise mini-dialogues to develop accuracy and fluency. | | | It could be argued that intercultural awareness, as a fundamental feature of language and an integral part of language learning, is important at all levels. These two articles deal with the topic of intercultural awareness and learning. The first article sets out the methodological background to this topic, and the second article offers practical suggestions for the classroom. | | | | | | | |
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