Changing English
Changing English
Kevin McCaughey,
Regional English Language Officer Kyiv, Ukraine https://www.facebook.com/relokyiv/ What Teachers Should Know Alla McCaughey
Goals
How English is Changing
Some Ideas for Teachers
Technology
Take-Aways
Don’t worry that English is changing
Be proud of your English
How this webinar is
different
How is English changing?
“English Language is Changing Faster Than Ever.”
The Telegraph, May 2015
Recent poll: 86% of British parents think their children speak another
Keep up with the technology
if you can
If you can’t, encourage
students to keep you
New Literacies
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution…”
Professor Andrea Lundsford (2006)
New Literacies
online chats discussion forums
blogs texting
How are these forms of writing
different from traditional
How are these forms of writing
different from traditional
ABBA
“Dancing Queen” ranks #174 on Rolling Stone magazine’s
1. You need a pen and paper. We are taking away the chatbok!
2. Number from 1-7 on your paper. 3. Write the name of the language
you hear.
Listen to the audio
3. Zulu
3. Zulu
1. Arabic
1. Arabic
4. French
4. French
5. English
5. English
6. Ukrainian
6. Ukrainian
7. Spanish
7. Spanish
2. Cambodian
2. Cambodian
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
Najat Al Saghira
Najat Al Saghira
Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel
Kevin & Uliana
Kevin & Uliana
Take Poll 1
Select all that you identified correctly
