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.