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ELTeCS
ELTeCS is the English Language Teaching Contacts
Scheme. It promotes networking between ELT
professionals across the world, helping people to
share information, skills and materials, collaborate on
projects and get in touch with ELT language schools,
publishers and examinations boards. ELTeCS
• has seven regional electronic discussion lists
• funds regional events for ELTeCS members
• produces a bi-annual publication ELTeCS Info
• shares information on teachers' associations,
events and ELT publications worldwide.
We have over 4,000 members worldwide, in seven
regions: Europe and Central Asia, East Asia, China,
South Asia, India, Latin America, and Africa and the
Middle East.
Membership is free and open to all ELT professionals
worldwide. If you would like to join, visit the ELTeCS
website at:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/english/eltecs/index.htm
Suggested website
http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org
Search English is a news, information and networking
tool for ELT professionals. It gives you information on
worldwide events and articles on current
methodology and best practice. Try it out!
VTTN resource books
There is a set of VTTN resource books in each province.
These cover many aspects of teaching, from theory and
methodology to practical classroom activities.
New books of particular relevance to the “ Promoting
Written Work” workshops are:
• ‘How to Teach Writing’ – Jeremy Harmer (Longman)
All the basic methodology for teaching writing that
a teacher needs to know.
• ‘Writing Extra’ – Palmer (CUP)
A resource book of multi-level skills and activities
Please contact your provincial ELT specialist or
co-ordinator for more information.
Our favourite websites
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk
This has so many great lesson ideas and activities
and lots of downloadable worksheets.
If you are a primary teacher you should have a look at:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant
This has a wide range of ideas for use in primary
English language lessons
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish
This is for both teachers and students of all ages
and has activities based around themes and topics.
Please let us know any websites that you want to
share with other VTTN teachers.
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