AN ELT Z PRODUCTION

 Hello everyone !

Here is the link of our website: https://eltz.weebly.com. 

Our topic was the "English as a Global Language and Its Pedagogical Implications" we put a lot of work in it. I want to thank you my dear teammates that work really hard for creating this website and its contents.

Also, after visiting the website if you have any opinions and/or comments about it you can share with us through the contact section on this website. 

Also, there were other groups that work on the future of the ELT. They prepared wonderful works that you need to check it out. Here are the links :

https://newvisionelt.weebly.com/ 

https://syncinedu.weebly.com/

https://nongenderedelt.weebly.com/ 

Teacher Training - Project Week #5

Hello!

This is the final week of our project. We have been so busy designing final elements for our project. Firstly we divided our conclusion and further suggestion part into two. Each pair worked on one of these elements and the results are amazing. You can find them here :

https://youtu.be/esIZN43B3_Y

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1412547701823766531

We also designed three new activities for ELT classrooms that includes Global Englishes. Honestly, the activity design was the hardest thing that I did this week. It took quite a long time to finish, but I'm really happy with the result. Main focus of the activity that I designed was introducing the World Englishes vocabularies. I wrote four different original stories about Ugandan English, Philippine English, Indian English and South African English for the activity and created a Canva presentation, you can reach that here :

https://www.canva.com/design/DAEUxhzPF9s/D8p7vGkEB98szUJLP4rNiA/view?utm_content=DAEUxhzPF9s&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

We will be sharing the details of this activity in our website.

Also, I learned that designing a website was quite hard but I'm glad to be able to say this "I finally conquered it!" at least for the weebly website designs. It was fun to choose every little detail about out website, and finally seeing all of our works together like this made me teary :'))

Finally I want to say that I had so much fun attending the lessons and producing our own website. I'm so grateful to our teachers to give us this kind of opportunity. 

I will be sharing the link of the website this Wednesday, so stay tuned !

Teacher Training - Project Week #4

 

Hi! 

After a long week full of final exams, ELT Z started to work on the project again, we mainly decided what do we want to do, and how we will achieve out goal. Our academic ground for the project is completed without a problem. For the next week, we will be designing conclusion and further suggestion part of our researches. Later we will design activities to contribute our suggestions and design the website. Here is a sneak peak for my research paper :

"The world has universal languages; mathematics language of science, music language of emotions, and now English is becoming the language of problem-solving, not because America is pushing it but because the world is pulling it.” Jay Walker

We are not learning English to communicate with the natives of English anymore; we learn English to communicate with the world. In most countries learning and teaching English is a government- supported policy, and it starts at the primary school level. Also, in each decade age of learners of English is dropping lower and lower. The countries that teach English as a second language or as a foreign language don't have the same starting age, duration of formal schooling, language teaching methodology, and aims. In this paper, we will be looking at how English is taught all over the world...

See you next week !

Teacher Training - Project Week #3

 Hi!

This week I started to write down my paper, and it is going great! The only thing left is the conclusion paragraph of it. As a reminder I'm working on ELT practices all over the world. I mainly focused on the starting age of the learners, duration of formal schooling of English, materials, language teaching methodology, and aims in the ELT classrooms. I also find this website which shows hundred non-native English-speaking countries and their English Proficiency Index(EPI). There are five degrees of proficiency in this index; very high, high, moderate, low, and very low. I choose China, Netherlands and Argentina from this index to understand what is the differences that made them better from one another. With this we might understand what we have been doing wrong. 

You can find the website here : https://www.ef.edu/epi/ 

Teacher Training - Project Week #2

Hello!

This week I focused on researching my topic which is ELT practices all over the world. I firstly search for articles from Google Scholar and ERIC. These two websites have huge databases and you can filter your search with publish date! I found more than ten articles but most of them didn't exactly have the information that I was looking for, later with the suggestion of my teacher I use different wording to search articles I found good ten resources. I downloaded them to my computer and restore them there. I made a different file for the countries that I searched.

Teacher Training - Project Week #1

After our last session with Teacher Training, we started to plan our project, and in this project we wanted to explore the future of  ELT and how we can adept this future in our classrooms. Firstly, we started with deciding the main headline which is going to be "English as a Global Language".  I have mentioned this before as we talk this a lot in teacher training but we will be look into this subject deeply and we will be exploring this in the context of Turkey too. We decided our subject after a group meeting in zoom, it took nearly an hour, later we continue to discuss more about the content of this topic and we separated it into four main headlines. Later we discuss more about this headlines/topics in an WhatsApp meeting, that also took about an hour and we shared who will be researching what topics. I will be looking into ELT classrooms all over the world and how they teach English as a foreign or second language, are there any specific methods that is been used, etc. So we mainly talked about our topic and how can we do what we want, find some answers for that and shared four headlines among ourselves. 

See you next week. 

Teacher Training #6

 Welcome again!

This was the last week of our teacher training, I had so much fun exploring, working on the subjects that I mentioned in my previous posts. I learned a lot and I'm looking forward to use the things that I learned in my classroom. In this last wee our topic was materials and how we can integrate Global English to our materials and our classes. Below, you will see our thought on how to integrate Global English with an activity, enjoy;

After the final session of our teacher training, we designed an activity under the title of ‘Global English’ as team ELT Z. For the process of preparation, we met on Zoom at 2pm and had approximately two hours of meeting to brainstorm, exchange ideas and distribute the duties. We wanted to use what we learned during the sessions of teacher training while trying to maintain World Englishes as the main focus. After sharing various precious ideas and placing most of our thoughts on the project, we decided to benefit from Lino.it and IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive as the materials we learned through the teacher training sessions. Here comes our activity below, take care!

XOXO,  Team ELT Z  

Global English Activity of “ELT Z”

Designed by: Bilge Güral, Zeynep Ahsen Karasoy, Öken Demir, Zeynep Çetintaş

Classroom setting: 20 students 

Level: B2+/C1 

Skills: Speaking, Listening

*It is assumed that the students are being taught ‘British English’ 

• Activity

*It is assumed that students already have a virtual classroom on “Google Classroom”. 

1. Students will be paired and in total there will be 10 pairs of 20 students. 

2. The teacher will share the link of “IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive” with the students on “Google Classroom”. *The link to the website: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/globalmap 

3. After sharing the link, teacher will ask students to go to the link and will assign each pair a different place on the map the places will be like this: Pair 1: Naples 15 / Pair 2: Germany 11 / Pair 3: India 3 / Pair 4: Russia 24 / Pair 5: Spain 3 / Pair 6: Ghana 2 / Pair 7: Turkey 3 / Pair 8: Kuwait 1 / Pair 9: Jiangsu 3 / Pair 10: France 8 

4. Each and every pair will be asked to listen to the podcast about the assigned place on the map and will be asked to investigate the podcast in depth with multiple aspects.

5. When the investigation part is over, students will be provided an another link on “Google Classroom” again and that link will bring them to the website called “Linoit” The link to the website is: http://linoit.com/users/zeynepcetintas/canvases/inbox

6. The students will see a sticky note and on that note the reflection questions about the podcasts will be written:

• What did draw your attention when you first listened to the audio?

• Did you have difficulty in understanding it? Why or why not?

• Is there any difference from the British accent in terms of pronunciation, intonation, word stress? If yes, explain how by giving examples.

• Would you like to talk to someone who speaks this accent? Why or why not?

7. The teacher will ask each and every pair to reflect upon the questions given on the sticky note. Basically students will create a new sticky note on linoit to write down their answers to the reflection questions. 

8. When the students complete writing their sticky notes, the teacher will ask each pair to present their reflections already written on the sticky notes that they have created about the podcasts that they have listened to. 

9. Each pair will start their presentation by making their fellow students listen to the most striking 10-15 seconds of the podcasts. After this listening stage, the pairs will continue on with presenting their reflections on their sticky notes. 

10. When the activity is completed, students will be exposed to 10 different dialects of English and will be able to find out the differences as well as the similarities between the “Standard English” that they are currently learning (British English) and the different dialects that they have listened to.