Students often expect their teacher to correct their written errors, but students can also learn a lot from looking for and correcting errors in written work.
This activity gives you the chance to test your correction skills and find errors in short texts using a site called BookOven and a tool called SpellChecker
WSJ summary of a study on social media and learning. Showed that children may understand sounds of languages more than with traditional learning because of interaction with media.
Engo is an online tuition services that uses StepTalkAudio™ system where you record voice messages instead of text. You get personalised help with English learning by a real teacher.
"Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough.
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Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough.
The webcam can be a vital tool in helping to support our students' pronunciation habits and helping them to 'see' how words and expressions are pronounced and what particular pronunciation features they need to be aware of. So here are a few tips and examples to help you use your webcam to help with your students' pronunciation.
"In this first blog posting I'd like us to look at some of the major issues that are affecting education at this time and try to examine them in relation to English language teaching and how they may affect it."
In this first blog posting I'd like us to look at some of the major issues that are affecting education at this time and try to examine them in relation to English language teaching and how they may affect it.
It is great that English is spoken by so many people around the world, but this can make it very difficult to understand, because there are such a range of different accents. In today's activity we use a website called The Speech Accent Archive to listen to different accents and compare them.
Janala, a mobile service which helps learn English via mobile phones in Bangladesh, has delivered 1 million English lessons. Janala, which means "window," was launched in November last year and is run by BBC World Service Trust and funded by UK's Department for International Development.