Pete Sharma Associates

The Reviews in brief column at the back of the EL Gazette is now sponsored by the Bournemouth English Book Centre.

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A big thanks to the services of the Oxford English Book Centre over the past years!

New technology in language teaching

The advent of a new technology in ELT seems to follow a pattern. Typically, something exciting emerges: podcasting, for example. The “early adapters” enjoy trying it out, and when interest grows, ELT applications begin to emerge. Over the last year or so, there has been an explosion of interest in various technologies which have been around for some time, but have not been particularly mainstream. This article will look at some of these technologies: blogs, wikis and podcasting. It will also touch on other, exciting new developments.

For the rest of this article, please see the latest EL Gazette.

Macmillan have just circulated “International Commuting” – the latest business English e-lesson.

To download a copy, please visit:

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Happy commuting!

Pete

Entries in Scott Thornbury’s new book, An A-Z of ELT, include:

-computer-assisted language learning

-computer-mediated communication

-corpus &

-webquests.

The book is in the Macmillan Books for Teachers series. Future titles include our own (Barney Barrett and Pete Sharma’s) book on technology, due out March 2007!

For more on Scott’s book, see: {{link http://www.macmillanenglish.com/default.aspx?id=2699 An A-Z of ELT}}