MELTA

Dealing with Difficult Students

An ELTAF / ELTAS workshop with Patricia de Griese. To register and for more info, please click on the following link: https://t1p.de/ym9v

Contribute to the German issue of the HLT (Humanizing Language Teaching) magazine

HLT is the leading free online magazine for Teachers of English where you’ll find a wealth of ELT articles and ELT resources, lesson ideas, voices, book reviews and articles about 21st Century Skills, NLP, CLIL, Primary, Secondary and more. The HLT online magazine run by Pilgrims is looking for contributions – deadline is 31st of […]

Making pronunciation activities: Tricks and Traps

"After several decades of creating and publishing pronunciation materials, I’ve hopefully learnt a few tricks of the trade! In this session, I’ll talk you through some of the thought processes involved in designing activities, from diagnosing a problem through to finding an appropriate solution, while avoiding some of the traps along the way. After this […]

Lose Those Words, with Edward de Chazal

Achieving a specified wordcount is a vital skill in various educational and business contexts. Yet many students, teachers and professionals find it challenging to write word-limited texts like abstracts and personal statements. This workshop covers seven techniques to reduce wordcount in three different aspects – grammatical, lexical, and critical. Our resulting texts illustrate how using […]

Tech Talk is back!

This week, we are going to talk abut open educational resources (OER) and what they mean for us a teachers and materials developers. All of us have used freely available teaching resources at one time or another. But how do we know what we're allowed to use? And do we know how we're allowed to […]

Assessment & managing expectations

In this interactive workshop, we’ll look at different ways that we can assess our learners’ communication skills and how we can provide more support to all our learners in the classroom. We’ll analyse different approaches to assessing written work and share some ideas for easy-to-use tech to assess speaking. Click here to register

Swap Shop: Assessment in HE during the Covid-semester?

Are you teaching in higher education in Germany? If you are, your courses have most likely been moved online for the 3rd semester in this pandemic. You’ve probably been told that you can’t run your language exams on campus this semester. Are you wondering how you’re going to assess your students? Are you looking for […]