ELT Podcast - The Teachers' Lounge
Language teachers talking about education and teaching EFL, English as a Foreign Language.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2008
First Lesson of the School Year for EFL Classrooms
www.eltpodcast.com In this episode, language teachers talk about what they do when faced with a new group of students in the classroom on the first day of classes in the new school year. Visit the T…
00:16:33 |
Wed 09 Apr 2008
Streaming Students by Ability Level
Streaming, or tracking, involves dividing the students up into different ability levels. The goal is to have a set of classes comprised of students of similar abilities and / or aptitudes, so that te…
00:36:10 |
Fri 23 Nov 2007
Reports on the JALT CALL conference
ELT Podcast - Teachers Lounge We talk about various technology-related presentations that we attended at a conference held in Tokyo June 2-3, 2007. For extensive notes and links to the content discus…
00:28:42 |
Sun 24 Jun 2007
Attending Conferences for Language Teachers
www.eltpocast.com Conferences for language teachers are an important opportunity for professional development. Today's episode is intended for teachers with little to no conference experience. We dis…
00:28:59 |
Wed 16 May 2007
Seating Arrangements in Language Classrooms
www.eltpocast.com We have all probably seen large classrooms that are two-thirds full, with the front third of the seats empty. Or, when the number of seats is about the same as the number of student…
00:17:30 |
Sun 22 Apr 2007
Attendance and Tardiness in EFL Classrooms
For more extensive notes, please visit http://www.eltpodcast.com/archive/lounge Dominic's basic policy is to mark students absent if they are over 5 minutes late, and 3 absences will earn the studen…
00:16:29 |
Sun 15 Apr 2007
Information Gap Activities in EFL Lessons
Today we discussed information gap activity, a familiar type of exercise found in communicative textbooks and teacher resource books. An information gap activity requires as least two different versi…
00:26:49 |
Tue 20 Feb 2007
Using Textbook Dialogs in EFL Classrooms
www.eltpodcast.com This week we discussed what to do with the dialogs that are commonly found in language textbooks. First, we outlined a basic procedure that was popularized through textbooks such…
00:24:12 |
Mon 12 Feb 2007
Student Expectations in EFL Classrooms
www.eltpodcast.com Welcome to the sixth episode of ELT Podcast, the Teachers' Lounge. In this episode, we discuss student expectations. What do students expect our classes to be like? What do they ex…
00:18:34 |
Sun 04 Feb 2007
Student Evaluations in EFL Courses
www.eltpodcast.com Welcome to the fifth episode of ELT Podcast, the Teachers' Lounge. In this episode, we discuss student evaluations, including continuous assessment, final examinations, and other a…
00:25:29 |
Tue 23 Jan 2007
Holidays
www.eltpodcast.com Welcome to the fourth episode of ELT Podcast, the Teachers' Lounge. With the winter holiday approaching, we discussed a topic that, while outside the scope of educational topics, i…
00:27:41 |
Thu 28 Dec 2006
Attendance in EFL Classrooms
This is our third episode, and our topic is attendance. We started with a CNN news story with the title of "Students with good attendance can win a new car." We talked about how many classes students…
00:17:24 |
Sun 17 Dec 2006
Accents and Language Teaching
www.eltpodcast.com Welcome to the second episode of ELT Podcast, the Teachers' Lounge. Today we discussed accents, starting with a look at an online quiz that can accurately place your accent to a re…
00:22:12 |
Sun 10 Dec 2006
Michael Richards; Educational Reform
www.eltpodcast.com This is our first episode of ELT Podcast, the Teachers' Lounge. We started with an article from the Japan Times, "Reform panel eyes teacher improvement" (see our website, eltpodcas…
00:34:37 |
Sun 03 Dec 2006
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