A list of quotes and sayings about language
It is believed that language is the very essence of what costitutes our humanity. It is the mirror of both individuals and nations. Language reveals our thoughts and thoughts can never exist without language. So many prominent people have spoken about language and none has denied its supremacy over human behavior. These are some quotes and sayings that I favored and want to share with you. Read more…
Use of L1 in EFL classes
The use of the mother tongue in EFL classes is debatable in the foreign language classroom. Advocates of the monolingual approach suggest that the target language should be the only medium of communication, believing that the prohibition of the native language would maximize the effectiveness of learning the target language. Read more…
Travel vocabulary
Level: beginners
Objectives: travel vocabulary, learners cooperation, writing a paragraph using travel vocabulary
Materials: worksheets containing the task below.
Time: about 10 minutes. Read more…
Web 2.0 and EFL and ESL teachers
This is a video by Nik Peachey explaining what web 2.0 is all about and how it can be useful to EFL and ESL teachers.
He first starts by presenting what was the internet like before web 2.0 and then he shows how the internet is now a richer and more powerful tool at the hand of both teachers and students, enabling them to connect and share information in an unprecedented way. Read more…
Standard or Global?
English has now acquired the title of the world’s leading global language because it is used for business, science, and politics. Using the word “English” , I don’t mean an agreed upon standard English, the one used in the United States or Britain. In fact, it is misleading to think that these are the only varieties of English that exist. One cannot exclude, for example the English usesd in India, Singapore, Nigeria as being “non-English” forms of English. There are even other varieities of English that emerged with the expansion of world wide business, commerce and politics. So which forms of English should EFL and ESL teachers instruct? Read more…
7RVMYQ8NAJP2
The importance of repetition and recycling in ELT
Scott Thornbury Explains that repeating and recycling language points in different forms fosters language learning and long term memory.
Do you use recycling and repetition in your language class? Read more…
Content-Based Instruction
Most of us would agree that a second or a foreign language is learned not as much by direct instruction of its rules as by using it in meaningful context, especially when the students’ experience, interest and knowledge of the world are involved. Content based instruction offers the possiblity to use language as a medium of learning. Instead of teaching language in isolation from subject matter, teachers should integrate language development with content learning. Read more…
Watch this funny video
Here is an interview with Noam Chomsky. He talks about why studying language is important.
Watch and have fun! Read more…
