User:Jgakonga

ELT Training
Hi - ELT Training arose from a problem. My name is Jo Gakonga and I am a CELTA trainer and English teacher in the UK and the problem was that on the CELTA course we frequently interview trainees who have great potential as teachers, but whose knowledge of grammar isn't strong enough to allow me to give them a place on the course.

If you have learnt a foreign language to an advanced level, you probably have a good grasp of how languages hang together. If you are over 80 years old (as my parents are), you may have parsed sentences into their constituent elements and learnt Latin. However, if you do not fall into one of these categories (as I didn't), you probably don't know much about English grammar, despite the fact that you can speak the language eloquently and write it fluently!

So, I wanted to provide a course that would help trainees to get a grasp of the grammar, and recently discovering a lot about on-line learning in my MA course, I decided that this provided a possible space to run such a course. And here we are!

The Webinar idea grew out of this - if I have the facilities, I figured, I'd better use them! Every month I put up a new teacher training webinar that you can access freely on a range of teaching issues such as 'websites to get your learners reading and writing outside class' and 'encouraging your learners to speak'. There is a small archive there now and this will grow! I've had some very positive feedback from trainees so far, and I really hope that you find them helpful.

If you think this sounds interesting, please visit www.elt-training.com

Hope to see you there  Jo Gakonga