#KELTChat Topics

Last updated: 26 May, 2013

This page lists all of the previous #KELTChat topics, links to summaries and ideas for future discussions.

Teacher development

• Burnout: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/428-keltchat-summary-burnout-by-bryanteacher/

• Experiments we’re trying: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/experiments-were-trying-keltchat-summary-march-17-2013/

• Integrating Personal Teaching Beliefs at Work: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/keltchat-4-sunday-april-15-8pm-integrating-personal-teaching-beliefs-at-work/

• Integrating Personal and Institutional Teaching Beliefs:https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/keltchat-summary-15th-april-2012-integrating-personal-and-institutional-teaching-beliefs/

• Through the eyes of a newbie: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/kelt-chat-through-the-eyes-of-a-newbie/

 

Teaching practice

Classroom practice

• Building rapport: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/keltchat-preview-building-rapport-with-students/

• Classroom management: not yet discussed

• Classroom rules and implementing them: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/keltchat-summary-classroom-rules-and-implementing-them-9th-december-2012/

 

Language assessment

• All about Assessment: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/all-about-assessment/

Receptive skills in the classroom

• “What about listening?”: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/keltchat-summary-sunday-april-29th-what-about-listening/

 

Productive skills in the classroom

• Bringing L2 output into our classrooms: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/keltchat-summary-for-251112-task-based-learning-in-korea/

 

Language testing

• NEAT test: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/neat-test/

 

Materials in the classroom

• Authentic Materials – what’s the big deal?: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/keltchat-3rd-june-2012-summary-authentic-materials-whats-the-big-deal/

• Superstar Activities: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/keltchat-summary-19th-may-2012-superstar-activities/

• Taboo topics: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/keltchat-summary-taboo-topics-14th-april-2013/

 

Technology

• Tech tools we should be using: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/tech-tools-we-should-be-using-keltchat-summary-march-31-2013/

 

Language development

• Lexical approach: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/keltchat-summary-lexical-approach-october-28th-2012/

• Task-based learning in Korea: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/keltchat-summary-for-251112-task-based-learning-in-korea/

 

Language Learning

Classroom interaction

• Automaticity and fluency: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/keltchat-summary-automaticity-fluency-23rd-september-2012/

• Fostering confidence in Korean students: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/keltchat-summary-for-april-02-2012-fostering-confidence-in-korean-students/
• L1 use in the classroom: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/keltchat-summary-l1-use-in-the-language-classroom-7th-october-7th-2012/

• Social networks in the classroom: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/summary-for-keltchat-july-15-social-networks-in-the-classrooms/

• Teaching our learners how to learn languages: https://keltchat.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/keltchat-summary-for-march-17-2012-teaching-our-learners-how-to-learn-languages/

 

Potential areas for future discussion

• Discourse
• Linguistics
• Pedagogical Grammar
• Pronunciation
• Sociolinguistics
• Vocabulary learning