Items tagged: "images"
Monday 6 July 2009
ELT in Images – the guru
The definition I found for guru reads like this: “a person who other people respect and go to for advice about a particular subject”. In the particular subject of English Language Teaching, where would we be without our gurus? The term is certainly used a lot. And not only in ELT, either. Other frequent “gurus” [...]
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ELT in Images – the pendulum
Our first image is the pendulum. It has been said that ELT follows fashions, and some things become very popular only to fall out of favour later. For example, grammar translation was once considered “the way” to learn a language, and then it became deeply unpopular in some sectors of the profession. Now more and [...]
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ELT in Images and Metaphor
We are surrounded by images. While they have always exerted a powerful force upon us, there are those who argue that in today’s multimedia, connected and digital world images carry more weight than ever. Two books on images have recently been published in the field of English language teaching (Images by Jamie Keddie and Working [...]
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