05May Uk Online Tutoring: A Growing Trend
By means of the World Wide Internet, the near-impossible communication tasks can now be achieved with just a click of a button. , Truly, it has revolutionized all aspects of your life and education is no exception.
In UK and US, the internet plays a significant role in boosting school children’s education. With its ease, convenient and inexpensive feature, the web is now being utilized for on the internet tutorials. Compared to the standard private tutoring, on the internet tutoring delivers a practical option to the pricey private tutoring which in UK alone can amount into £45 per hour.
This means that those kids who truly will need aid on their education typically miss out this learning chance. Nevertheless, with on-line tutoring, you can ease up the strain on your tutorial budget even though your young children can benefit from online understanding.
04May University of Oxford ,Fitzjames Research Fellowship
University of Oxford ,Fitzjames Study Fellowship in English 2011 in UK
Study Subject:English
Employer: University of Oxford (Merton College)
Level:Postdoctoral
Scholarship Description:
Merton College proposes to elect to a four-year Fitzjames Analysis Fellowship in Old and Middle English to commence in October 2011. This career development post will enable a promising academic at an early stage in his or her career to combine substantial support for analysis with the opportunity to develop skills in teaching and academic administration.
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03May The Use of Audio Aids in the Efl Class at the Tertiary Level: a Plus or a Minus?
Introduction
It is sometimes time-consuming and/or exhausting to make second/foreign language materials (either newly constructed or adapted) suitable and acceptable to the learner because he/she may feel uninterested in and even disappointed with them as he/she finds them unfamiliar, difficult, problematic, mechanical, unattractive and so forth. Besides, the teaching methods and techniques the teacher employs may not be in consonance with the learner’s needs, interests, level and aptitude. Hence, as opposed to the traditional approach to L2 teaching including the chalk and talk method, the communicative language teaching approach encourages the teacher to act as a facilitator by helping the learner become an interested, active and efficient participant in the whole learning process (Richards and Rodgers 2002). To carry out his/her job successfully and ensure the learner’s maximal benefit, the teacher has to use his/her teaching methods, techniques as well as materials in a manner that is consistent with the learner’s needs and interest. And the appropriate use of audio aids can be substantially helpful in this respect (Kamal and Afteb 1993) since such learning aids and teaching machines stimulate, motivate and arrest the learner’s attention during the instructional process.
Audio-aids can be defined as models and devices that can be heard and give an image of something, somebody and some situations. They include recorded materials, radios, cassette players, cassettes and the like which are relatively cheap and available and which the language teacher with a little training can use in the L2 class so as to make the teaching methods, techniques and materials considerably effective and interesting, and to help the learner have maximum benefit (Akanbi 1988). Unlike most other types of aids and means used in the language class, on the one hand, this type of aid enables the teacher to modify the teaching method and technique, and change the classroom situation quickly and immediately as necessary; and on the other, it attracts the learner’s attention, stirs his/her imagination, reduces his/her exhaustion, motivates him/her to be engaged in the learning process, and thus helps him/her to acquire expected proficiency in the language skills especially listening and speaking.