ELT E-READING GROUP
The ELT e-Reading Group was created by a collective of English language teachers from all over the world with the support of the British Council Arts and ELT Departments.
Our Objectives
- To encourage English language teachers and those studying English Literature as part of their Higher Education to read literature in English, creating opportunities to get in contact with texts from different countries, periods and authors
- To promote debate and an in-depth engagement with relevant issues through the discussion of works of literature in English
- To provide opportunities for teachers to talk to each other online underpinning the reading habit and building an ELT community of readers. This opportunity of networking facilitating acknowledgement of otherness and sensitisation towards diversity of cultures can finally lead to the formation of a group of better-equipped resource teachers in their own teaching environments. This networking may eventually provide teachers with a 'cue to pedagogic inventions' (Rocklin, 1995) in their respective contexts
- To help English language educators to see other points of view connecting them to a wider world, other philosophies and new ideas building bridges between, and insight into, other cultures thus contributing to building tolerance and intercultural competence
- To create opportunities for English Language teachers to develop their own language skills, increasing vocabulary, improving pronunciation and increasing their understanding of idiom and expressions as well as their command of the language as a whole.
How it works
The ELT e-Reading Group is open to all ELT professionals and students of literature who want to join it. All our texts come from free online resources and participants are invited to post their comments to the group¡¦s discussion board. There are three major threads in the group:
- Short Stories: a space to discuss and comment on our monthly short stories
- Novel Choice: discussion on novels selected by our members
- Poets Corner: the space for posting and commenting on our favourite poems.
Log in instructions
Just click on the 'Discuss' tab on the top navigation which will take you to the discussion boards or visit our webpage and at the bottom of the page you will find a link saying 'please, click here to register on the enCompass discussion board'.
Then follow these simple instructions:
1. Go to the discussion board page. On the left-hand column you will see an entry for *register*
2. Fill in the fields to complete your registration
3. When you finish this process an e-mail will be sent to your e-mail address with a computer-generated password and a link to validate your registration
4. Click on the link and then enter the password you received
5. Later on you can click on *My account* and *Change your password* for something you will easily memorise, if you want to, or you can use the same password you received.
6. Go to the ELT e-Reading Group discussion thread and write your post clicking on *Reply* after the last post. A window will open and then you can write your message there.
7. Your message will be sent to the moderator before being published.
The texts read and discussed by the group are available online. Short stories, poems and novel extracts are selected form the New Writing and Brit Lit Teaching English websites. Please, if you have any other questions or difficulties to go through this process, let us know sending an e-mail to ELT e-Reading Groups or to your local coordinator.
All the best and welcome to the group!
ELT e-Reading Group Connecting Trainee Language Teachers and Literature in English
As well as the public reading discussions we have also set up as private area for use by classes participating in this ELT e-reading project connecting trainee English language teachers and literature in English. Access to these areas is by invitation only:
http://britishcouncil.world-communities.org/ereadinggroup/private/chat/
http://britishcouncil.world-communities.org/ereadinggroup/private/discussionboards/
Please contact ELT e-Reading Groups for more information.
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