ELT Technology Weekly

Task-based language teaching (TBLT)  is a popular pedagogic approach and used by many teachers nowadays. It allows students to build up their ideas without restrictions and expressing their  point of views with their unique style of expressions and wordings regardless of the accuracy in grammar, vocabulary or other lexical features in writing. However, I know it's quite challenging for a novice teacher - maybe like you, to design a TBLT lesson as you need to think of class contents in different task stages. If you still have no ideas, you may get your inspiration from a number of WebQuests in The QuestGarden . Although WebQuests is a kind of technology that seldom be used nowadays, still, the inquiry-orientated activity in each WebQuests can bring you idea on the development of your lesson plan. Recently, I have an Intermediate ESL class with my students with the aid of this WebQuests - An English Holiday and my students enjoy it a lot!😎 - So now I want to share it to al...

Have you encountered the following situation?  Your class started for 10 minutes only, but your students start losing their attention already - they keep yawning, lying on their desk and propping their chin on their hands. Possibly, it is because your class is dull and boring to them.  To deal with this problem, teaching with the aid of Games is always a good idea. With creative and interactive content, students can learn their knowledge in a relaxed and funny way.  Last week, I have tried to make a game using Wordwall for my language class and it works, so I want to recommend it to you in this post. Wordwall Home page Wordwall is a tool that can allow teachers to design games with the aid of 33 interactive templates. Most of the templates are suitable to use in language classes, for example, Wordsearch, Crossword, Labelled Diagram etc. You can choose one of them and start your design. Templates After clicking " Create with this template ", you can start editing the g...

As a new teacher, I always think about how to make my classes become funny so my students can enjoy them, and information technology really helps a lot in this aspect as it can allow us to do something creative. Recently, there is a blog inspired me a lot on designing interactive in-class activities so I want to promote it to you. It is  Ozge Karaoglu's Blog . On the top of the blog, the author divided her profile into several parts like her background information, her achievements, the workshops that she held before etc. so you can locate her information easily.  In each post, she recommended one app or game . You can know what functions can be performed in the app, how to use it and how you can apply it in your classroom from the post. Also, there is a photo on the left as to show the appearance of the app. The link of the app is provided to you as well so you need not to struggle where to download it. If you only want to read certain posts - Don't worry! You just need to ...