Comments for Chris' ELT Journal

Comment on Back into teaching by Hossain Ahmed

Hossain Ahmed — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:03:16 +0000

Hi Chris

I am studying M Ed Trainer Development at Marjon as a Hornby scholar from 28th Sep 09. Just started.

Heard about you from INTED. Would be lovely to keep in touch.

Hossain
M Ed Trainer Development ELT
UCP Marjon
Plymouth, UK

Comment on Well-done everyone! by black hattitude

black hattitude — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:36:55 +0000

Hi, thanks for the great quality of your blog, each time i come here, i'm amazed. black hattitude.

Comment on Summer in the Midlands by Tony Brown

Tony Brown — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:25:50 +0000

I don’t know If I said it already but …Cool site, love the info. I do a lot of research online on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,

A definite great read..Tony Brown

Comment on Profile by andrew

andrew — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:37:25 +0000

I really liked your blog!

Comment on Away with the fairies by jeevan Bhattarai

jeevan Bhattarai — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:19:21 +0000

dear ch

im also seeking Problem for my thesis.I have to focus ELT. could u suggest any?
jeevan

Comment on Short & Scary by Fiona Joseph

Fiona Joseph — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:45:52 +0000

Hi Chris

It was good to meet you again at this BC event and yes, I agree, what a great evening it was. I enjoyed both Louise’s and Romesh’s readings and loved the pre-reading (well, listening!) activity we did for Romesh’s story.

I’m presenting at the ETAS conference in Switzerland this weekend on the topic of the Cambridge exam set texts, and would be interested in your views.

Best wishes
Fiona

Comment on Negotiating meaning by Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:30:19 +0000

Cool site, love the info.

Comment on Trainee teachers e-reading group by abdul

abdul — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:22:43 +0000

i would like to be improve my reading english and learning english language thanks!!!!!!!!!.

Comment on Trainee teachers e-reading group by Avertedd

Avertedd — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:14:08 +0000

Хорошо что удалось отыскать такой замечательный блог, а то последнее время уже начал думать что инет это мусорка сплошная.

Comment on The place of technology by chrislima90

chrislima90 — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:48:28 +0000

Hi Tony
Thanks a lot for your comments and for posing such challenging questions – to which I have no pretence of having final answers

I completely agree with you when you say that there are social and geographical problemd that should be tackled first. I don’t think that giving a computer per child in a couple of villages in Africa will solve the problem because there are deep social, hisotrical and cultural factores involved and which will determine how and what for the computers are used. These factors are largely being ignored most of the times. I believe we should think of technology in a broarder educational context – while governments and institutions do not change the way education is seen and provided, technology will only reproduce the same attitudes that we have at the moment, as we can see in the examples you give. Access to technology should come with better social conditions, access to books and teacher education programmes.

Besides that, I think many teachers use new technologies with the main objective of making students tech-savvy. Is to be able to use as many gadgets and new programmes what really matters?

Why should ICT be a component of education? What’s the rationale behind it?