I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention:
Next Blog Carnival Announcement from David Deubelbeiss:
On April 1st, Sylvia Guinan will be hosting the 40th edition of the ELT Blog Carnival. It will be about “Ideas For Teaching With Technology”. A great topic! Share and post any and all entries HERE
Check out all prior Blog Carnival entries, now nicely archived on the new ELT Blog Carnival site.
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8 fun ways to practice presentations! is from The Business English Experience. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English.
In the United Kingdom, ELLs are called “EAL” (English as an additional Language). Here’s a Guardian story on them: How schools are breaking down the language barrier for EAL students.
How to teach which words go together: Corpora in English language teaching is from The British Council, and provides a information that is new to me.
Oral corrective feedback is from the ELT Journal, and gives a pretty good overview of related research. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On ESL/EFL/ELL Error Correction.
Off2Class is a new site providing lesson plans for private ESL tutors. Here’s a video about it:
Hallo, and thanks for this (just discovered your blog).
In case a non-English speaker comes across it – which I hope they may – you might want to change an article, which I suspect crept through in the way it does in all our writing. In writing about the Kilgariff note on corpora for the British Council you say: “provides a information that is new to me”. I think most British users of English (and I believe the same is true of American English) would be inclined to say ‘an’ if they used the indefinite article; but they would generally not treat “information” as if it were countable, but say “some information” or if really trying to be specific, “a piece of information”.