Tag: ELT

Edtech and climate change denial | Adaptive Learning in ELT

Edtech and climate change denial Posted: October 11, 2019 in ed tech, investment, politics

Over the last week, the Guardian has been running a series of articles on the global corporations that contribute most to climate change and the way that these vested interests lobby against changes to the law which might protect the planet. Beginning in the 1990s, an alliance of fossil fuel and automobile corporations, along with conservative think

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So many Englishes webinar: Q&A | MaWSIG

So many Englishes webinar: Q&Aby Web Editor on 1 October 2019 in ELT publishing, Materials writingSo many Englishes webinar: Q&AIn this blog post, Karen Spiller follows up on some of the questions that were left unanswered in the Q&A section at the end of the recent joint TESOL Association MWIS and MaWSIG webinar: So many Englishes! What does this mean for writers and publishers? The webinar was co-presented by Karen Spiller and Sherrise Roehr on 17 July 2019. You can find a recording of the webinar on

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25 ways of randomly placing students into pairs or groups – Oxford University Press

25 ways of randomly placing students into pairs or groups.

There are many benefits to getting students to work in pairs and groups. These range from giving students more speaking opportunities to creating better overall classroom dynamics.There are three broad ways of grouping students. We can let the students choose who they wish to work with, the teacher can make the groups, or we can group them randomly. In this post, I’ll show you a wealth of ways that you can organise your students randomly into pairs and groups.

The suggestions are organised into two sets. The first set of suggestions gets students to form a line which the teacher then divides up into pairs or groups of the desired size. The second set of suggestions gets students directly into the pairs or groups.

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Adaptive Learning in ELT | Thoughts about personalized and adaptive learning in ELT

AI and language teachingPosted: August 13, 2018 in adaptive, analytics, ed tech, Online learning, Personalization, testing Tags: AI, Anthony Seldon, assessment, Babbel, Cambridge English Language Assessment, chatbots, Donald Clark, Duolingo, investment, knowledge graphs, learning oriented assessment, learning theory, Machine Learning, marketing, Pearson, Personalization, spaced repetition, teaching machines, testing, translation 2It’s hype time again. Spurred on, no doubt, by the current spate of books a

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Making teaching personal | How to bring client-led content into your teaching – Oxford University Press

Making teaching personal | How to bring client-led content into your teaching 22 February 2018 by Oxford University Press ELT Leave a comment Teaching a group of business English students first thing on a Monday morning – short of going for a jog in sub-zero temperatures – is one of the surest ways I know of having to get out of bed and get into the swing of things snappily! I can’t say I look forward to the ordeal, but I can say that I don’t think I can remember a class which disappointed, and after whi

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G is for Grice (and his Maxims) | An A-Z of ELT

What would the language philosopher H.P. Grice have made of Twitter, I wonder? If you recall (and if you don’t, you have only to check the A-Z!) Grice formulated what is perhaps the most influential theory in the development of pragmatics, now best known as the Cooperative Principle.

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Germany 1:0 England – ELT Publishing in Deutschland | MaWSIG

Germany 1:0 England – ELT Publishing in Deutschland by Web Editor on 6 February 2018 in ELT publishing, Publishers This post is the second in our series on working in ELT materials development around the world. Here, Clare Maas describes the situation in Germany.

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