March | 2016 | English Language Teaching Materials

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Video: Making an English Class More Fun

Why Do We Use Videos in an English Classroom? I vividly remember that my students were excited and enjoyed watching videos on YouTube for an introduction of a chapter in the coursebook. The week 6’s seminar was about video in ELT. In the seminar, we discussed in a group the reason we, as the language…

Visuals and Texts

When I made my teacher-made handouts for an English class, I put some pictures or illustrations on them, which were for either only decoration, relating to a task to some extent or a task itself. The main reason I used the pictures and illustrations on my handouts was to attract students to them by entertaining…

Materials Adaptation | the reasons I adapted the coursebook

“Clearly, what actually happens in classrooms using published materials is that there is a complex trade-off between the three major elements in the equation: the materials, the teacher and the learners.” (Maley, 2011: 379) In this post, I would like to share with you the reasons I adapted the coursebook in Japan. Like Maley (2011)…

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