ELIS Podcast
Are you an English language educator? Discover ideas, strategies and research on English Language teaching, learning and assessment through podcasts produced by the English Language Institute of Singapore (ELIS). For show notes and links to resources visit our website at: go.gov.sg/elispodcast
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
In this episode, English Language Teacher Ms Zalena Aman from Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) talks to Dr Jeanne Ho, Deputy Director Special Projects (ELIS), about her classroom inquiry project which explored the use of Socratic Circles to engage students in poetry discussions.
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Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Listen to Dr Paul Doyle, Deputy Director, Research, talk about how we can report what others say in this episode of Grammar Matters.
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Thursday May 09, 2024
Thursday May 09, 2024
In this episode of Effective Communication for Learning, your host Darren Nonis, talks with Dr Alison Tan, Lead Specialist, ELIS, about subject literacy – what it is and the important implications it has for teaching and learning.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
In this episode of Effective Communication, your host Darren Nonis, talks with Dr Paul Doyle, Deputy Director, Research, about effective communication for learning across the curriculum and what this means for the English medium subject classroom.
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Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
In this episode, we feature Csilla Weninger, Associate Professor and Head of the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. Csilla speaks with Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher about the building of Multiliteracies, one of the key Pedagogical Emphases in ELS2020. They discuss why it is important to build multiliteracies in EL classrooms; the relationship between multiliteracies and digital literacy; and how teachers can incorporate digital literacy into the building of multiliteracies in EL classrooms to nurture future-ready learners.
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Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
In this episode, we feature Victor Lim Fei, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, English Language and Literature Academic Group, and Grace Yang, Subject Head/Educational Support at Yio Chu Kang Primary School. Victor and Grace speak with Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher about the building of multiliteracies in students. Multiliteracies is one of the key Pedagogical Emphases in ELS2020. They discuss the value of multiliteracies on students’ learning, the challenges of building multiliteracies and how teachers can enact the practice of multiliteracies in their classrooms.
For full show notes, visit our website at go.gov.sg/elispodcast
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Listen to Dr Paul Doyle, Deputy Director, Research, talk about the use of tenses when linking ideas and clauses in this episode of Grammar Matters.
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Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Listen to Dr Paul Doyle, Deputy Director, Research, talk about the use of subordinating conjunctions in this episode of Grammar Matters.
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Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Listen to Dr Paul Doyle, Deputy Director, Research, talk about the use of coordinating conjunctions in this episode of Grammar Matters.
For full show notes, visit our website at go.gov.sg/elispodcast
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
In this episode, we feature James Koh, Master Teacher and Stephanie Hua, Head of Department. They are Teacher Leaders who are deeply interested in the practice of Inquiry through Dialogue (ItD) in their classrooms. James and Stephanie speak with Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher about why they value ItD, how they enact ItD in their lessons, and the impact ItD has on their students’ learning.
ELIS Podcast
Discover ideas, perspectives and research on English Language education in our bite-sized podcasts.
Listen to our podcast episodes on the teaching and learning of English Language, Literature and General Paper.
Podcast Series on Areas of Teaching, Learning & Assessment
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Podcast Series on Classroom Inquiry
Curious about conducting classroom inquiry?
Listen to teachers' personal accounts of conducting classroom inquiry in these podcast episodes.
Podcast Series on Research Summaries
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Listen to our Research Summaries podcasts! Each episode is a summary of a research publication for you to enjoy.