ELT Journal

"You've Got mail": A film workshop

Hello friends, I think most of you have watched this film. The article we are going to discuss is about it as you know. Thus, please check out the following questions, read the article and if necessary watch the film again more critically.

1- The article states that using films as teaching materials brings many advantages. But what could be the disadvanatages ? Please write your opinions.

2- The researcher used films in the lesson called "Media Studies" and created an indepth analyses of films together with students. As a candidate teacher, in which lesson would you like to use films and why?

3-I used the film "You've got mail" to teach vocabulary in my reading class. After the students watched the film, I gave them a short summary of the plot and students were supposed to fill in the blanks with the required vocabulary such as "competition, chain store, family-owned business etc." So, think about an activity related with this film that you could use in your language class. What sort of activites could you give to your students about this film? Please write in details.

ELT Journal Chapter 9

The Role of NLP in Teachers' Classroom Discourse

Hi everybody,

This week we learned about NLP and discussed about some key points of it. Here are some questions for you. Please write your answers in the comment part. Do not forget to write your name.

1- Do you think your teachers are aware of NLP techniques?

2- How would language learners and teachers benefit from NLP?

3- Do you think you can use this technique in your own teaching? Are there any disadvantages?

Journal Topic for Thursday: I guess I forgot to tell you the journal topic in our last class. For Thursday, please write your comments in your journal notebook about the following topic:

How can people become successful in life? How do you define "success in life"?

ELT Journal Chapter 10

Dear friends,
Below you will see the questions I wrote on the board today. Please answer the first few questions at the beginning of this post. You don't have to answer the rest but consider them please.

a)Do you think the language learning situation in Taiwan and the students have some similarities with Turkish context? If there are some similarities, what are they?

b) Would it be possible to use this technique in language classes in Turkey? Would it be beneficial to use this technique in ELT departments? If so how?

c) Would you personally like to use this technique in order to develop your speaking ability? Why /why not?


1- What is an audio-taped journal?
2-What are the benefits of dialogue journals?
3- What are the benefits of audio-taped journals?
4- How did the researcher colloect data and analyze them? What is the method of the study?
5- How were the journal entries evaluated?
6- Why is the teacher response so important in dialogue journal exchanges?
7- What are the principles the teacher followed for the success of audio-taped journals?
8- What were the advantages of the audio-taped journals for the teacher at the end of the process?
9- What are the limitations of audio-taped journals?

ELT Journal Chapter 11

Hello friends,
You all welcome to the Advanced Reading and Writing Course. With the help of this blog page, we are going to discuss about the chapters in ELT Journal, practice vocabulary, share ideas about the units in your course book, and sometimes publish the written texts.

This week please answer the following questions given below about Chapter 11 in ELT Journal. You can respond them by simply clicking on the "comment" button. Do not forget to write your name under the comments.

See you in class.

Training in brainstorming and developing writing skills
1- Why is writing considered as an important skill?
2- What is the learning perspective of cognitive theory?
3- Why is it important for students to interact with each other?
4- What is the aim of the study?
5- What were the reactions of students in experimental group towards the brainstorming strategy?