In this issue of Modern English Teacher

Applying Research

 

Naheen Madarbakus-Ring and Stuart Benson show how research is used in learning and teaching, Meg Shovelton weaves together the strands of cross-cultural debate, and Mayuri Sooriyampola describes her way around teacher observation in difficult times. 

Other topics in this issue include: error correction, action research, the Interaction Hypothesis, and gamification with young learners- plus much more. 

In this issue of Modern English Teacher

Applying Research

 

 

Naheen Madarbakus-Ring and Stuart Benson show how research is used in learning and teaching, Meg Shovelton weaves together the strands of cross-cultural debate, and Mayuri Sooriyampola describes her way around teacher observation in difficult times.

Other topics in this issue include: error correction, action research, the Interaction Hypothesis, and gamification with young learners- plus much more.

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Igniting the fire within: motivating online learners

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Do you find it hard to motivate learners online? Are they finding the tasks difficult or challenging? What do you do to make them feel part of a learning community? This article answers some of these questions.

What does research say about error correction?

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What are the best ways to correct? What do learners want and what do they learn from? Which techniques have the most impact? The author looks at current thinking on this topic.

Using concept maps to promote Upper Intermediate and Advanced reading skills

Christine Roell

In this article, Christine Roell describes using visual concept maps to help learners link the ideas of a text together. Using deep reading skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation, the learner will arrive at a much fuller understanding along with the language to express it.

Igniting the fire within: motivating online learners

Anna Hasper

Do you find it hard to motivate learners online? Are they finding the tasks difficult or challenging? What do you do to make them feel part of a learning community? This article answers some of these questions.

What does research say about error correction?

Russ Mayne

What are the best ways to correct? What do learners want and what do they learn from? Which techniques have the most impact? The author looks at current thinking on this topic.

Using concept maps to promote Upper Intermediate and Advanced reading skills

Christine Roell

In this article, Christine Roell describes using visual concept maps to help learners link the ideas of a text together. Using deep reading skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation, the learner will arrive at a much fuller understanding along with the language to express it.

New for subscribers

Igniting the fire within: motivating online learners

Anna Hasper

Do you find it hard to motivate learners online? Are they finding the tasks difficult or challenging? What do you do to make them feel part of a learning community? This article answers some of these questions.

What does research say about error correction?

Russ Mayne

What are the best ways to correct? What do learners want and what do they learn from? Which techniques have the most impact? The author looks at current thinking on this topic.

Using concept maps to promote Upper Intermediate and Advanced reading skills

Christine Roell

In this article, Christine Roell describes using visual concept maps to help learners link the ideas of a text together. Using deep reading skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation, the learner will arrive at a much fuller understanding along with the language to express it.

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Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

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Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

National Geographic Learning

In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

National Geographic Learning

Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

National Geographic Learning

In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

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Implicit and explicit critical thinking activities

National Geographic Learning

Paul Dummett presents a few examples of what implicit and explicit critical thinking activities look like.

A Working Model for Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom

National Geographic Learning

In our October article on the topic of Critical Thinking in ELT, my co-author Paul Dummett suggested that critical thinking in English language teaching should involve more than simply identifying fact from misinformation or searching texts for supporting evidence. We argue instead that critical thinking is more encompassing and should be viewed as a ‘critical disposition’ (Davis and Barnett, 2015) or as an enquiring mindset towards learning.

Bringing Shakespeare into the classroom

Helbing English

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

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