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Giải nhất - “ Bức ảnh có lời chia sẻ hay nhất ”

BÙI THỊ CHI (01/02/1992) - ID: 101112547

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Giải nhì – “ Bức ảnh có được điểm bình chọn cao nhất”

NGUYỄN THANH TÙNG (06/051996) - ID:

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Giải ba -" Người dùng Facebook may mắn nhất "

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Thông tin về các giải thưởng:

Về giải nhất :

Giải nhất được chọn bởi một thành viên của Ban tổ chức - Tiến sĩ Giáo dục Melvyn Sakaguchi - Giám đốc Chương trình Giáo dục Quốc tế Hawaii.

Đây là lời chia sẻ của Tiến sĩ Melvyn Sakaguchi về bức ảnh có lời chia sẻ hay nhất:

“ Bức ảnh gia đình và kí ức về người ông chính là lựa chọn của tôi. Nó cho tôi cảm nhận được về sự quan trọng của gia đình trong mỗi người.

Nhìn vào bức ảnh, tôi nghĩ ngay đến Tết - một dịp lễ truyền thống và  quan trọng của người Việt Nam – Vì vậy mà tôi đã chọn bức ảnh số #4 --- bức ảnh gia đình. Cá nhân tôi nghĩ rằng Tết là dịp để tôn vinh giá trị của gia đình --- và những tình cảm mà gia đình đã tạo nên trọng mỗi con người. Và tình cảm đó, tôi nghĩ rằng,đã được thể hiện rõ trong bức ảnh kỷ niệm gia đình này “

Về giải nhì:

Bức ảnh số #30 là bức ảnh đã đạt được tổng điểm bình chọn cao nhất được tính từ những lượt “Thích và Chia sẻ” trên Facebook. Cụ thể, bức ảnh này nhận được 5245 điểm với 169 "Lượt thích" & 440 "Lượt chia sẻ", trong đó 1 "Lượt thích" nhận được 5 điểm và 1 "Lượt chia sẻ" nhận được 10 điểm.

Về giải ba :

Dành cho người dùng Facebook đã bình chọn cho các bức ảnh yêu thích của mình. Thông tin của mỗi thí sinh comment thông tin cá nhân của mình vào mỗi bức ảnh sẽ được ghi trên phiếu rút thăm may mắn, và tất cả các phiếu này sẽ được đặt trong một chiếc hộp may mắn. Sau đó, Uỷ viên của cuộc thi sẽ rút thăm ngẫu nhiên một phiếu để chọn ra chủ nhân của giải thưởng này.

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Call for Nominations: Roundtable Discussion for English Teachers at the American Center, Vietnam

Roundtable Discussion for English Teachers

ADAPTING ACTIVITIES FOR MULTI-LEVEL CLASSROOMS

American Center, June 18, 2015, 15:30-17:00

Do you teach a large class with multi-level students? It can be challenging for teachers to adapt materials and lesson plans to serve all students in a class. Let’s discuss how to use differentiation to create a great learning experience for your students, keeping in mind their different learning styles, interests, and needs. Join Stephanie Gurung, English Language Fellow, for a professional roundtable discussion for educators. All levels of English teachers are welcome.

Speaker: Ms. Stephanie Gurung, U.S. Department of State Senior English Language Fellow, Quang Binh University, Quang Binh Province

Where: The American Center

1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Ba Dinh District

When: Thursday, June 18, 2015 from 15:30 to 17:00.

Event doors will open at 15:00. Please arrive no later than 15:15 due to security screening.

Who: English teacher, English teacher trainers, senior English teacher students

IDs: Please bring your Identification Card (Chứng minh Nhân dân) or other ID with photos (Bằng lái xe, Hộ chiếu) for event check-in.

RSVP: Please register online athttp://form.jotform.us/form/51530338936154 no later than June 16, 2015.

Contact: Mr. Duong Le, Cultural Affairs Assistant, U.S. Embassy Hanoi

Tel: 84-4-38505000 Email: ledt@state.gov

The Writing Contest Award Ceremony by ELTiCenter

With the purpose of giving rewards to winners of the Writing Contest “Tet in Vietnam”, ELTiCenter staff held a meeting at Leona Coffee, Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam on the 24th of March, 2015.

Honestly, that award ceremony happened much more interestingly than a usual appointment. In addition to sincere sharing from winners for their winning the highest prizes at the Writing Contest “Tet in Vietnam” are their own stories in learning English and their dreams in the future.

Being asked about the reason why they know the contest, they all told that they read about it on social channels of ELTiCenter like Facebook and Google+. The most amazing thing was that Thao Linh - the winner of the first prize used to be a student of Ms. Sherry Yen – Co-editor of ELTiCenter at AEA centre. Especially, Thao Linh is also the youngest participant of this contest at her age of 13. And the date that ELTiCenter awarded winners of this writing contest was the 13rd birthday of Thao Linh, which made her so excited.

The meeting continued naturally with winners’ stories about their studying English at their school. All of them agreed that extracurricular activities including English clubs, English speaking and writing contests played an important part in helping ESL students like them practise and enhance English competence.

About their dreams in the future,

Thao Linh- winner of the first prize expressed her expectation to be a student of Hanoi – Amsterdam High School on account of her belief that she would be able to develop not only her academic knowledge but also other necessary soft skills there. Moreover, winning a full scholarship to study MBA in New York, the USA is also one of her targets. Even though she is just a teenager at present, she worries that if she does not attempt to gain the best things, those who are at the same ages with her will leave her back alone.

“All my classmates now are very outstanding at present. I believe they will get a lot of success in the future, so I need to try more and more”, she said.

A bit different from Thao Linh, Hong Hue – winner of the second prize is still on the progress of thinking about giving a decision for her future career. However, she said her father expect her to be a teacher of English after graduating from School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. Accidently, she used to gain the second prize of the “Drawing Contest” also held by ELTiCenter on last Christmas in 2014.

“Since I won the second prize of the “Lucky Drawing Contest” by ELTiCenter, I HAVE always followed ELTiCenter activities on its means of communication like Facebook Fanpage and website. I read about the “Writing Contest” last month and I attempt to write the best writing product to attend this contest and I was so happy to be the winner of the 2nd prize twice”, said Hong Hue.

Listening carefully to what everybody shared, Van Anh – writer of an essay chosen to be included in the collection of “Tet in Vietnam” by ELTiCenter also expressed her desire to improve her English writing skill. She said she was not confident enough in her skill of writing contest, so she attended this contest to practise and improve it. At present, Van Anh is a coordinator of AEA English centre, volunteer of some charity programs. Furthermore, she is also on the progress of proving herself to be one of the most prestigious leaders of ICC English Club – an English Club of Thai Nguyen university, Vietnam.

In general, the award ceremony of ELTiCenter was a meaning meeting where all people can talk friendly about themselves, their methods of learning English and their feelings to be the winners of the drawing contest, etc.

The meeting did open my mind that everybody had his and her strong point, so we had better learn from others as much as possible. It is boring to stay at home; in contrast, sometimes going out to talk to strange people and listen to their stories will change our style of living a little bit. Thanks to communicating to others, it is possible for us find out the similarities and differences between them and ourselves, which promotes us to learn the best from others and try to get over our obstacles.

Turning back to the theme of this post, after successfully organizing “Lucky Drawing Contest” and “Writing Contest”, ELTiCenter will make all effort to create more attractive programs in term of promoting teaching and learning English in Vietnam particularly and all over the world generally so that more and more ESL teachers and learners will get benefits from ELTiCenter’s activities and programs.

By Thanh Huong

ELTiCenter

Announcement on the results of the Writing Contest “TET IN VIETNAM” by ELT iCenter!

Dear guys!

We would like to give our deepest thanks to your attending our Writing Contest “TET IN VIETNAM” despite your busy time with a lot of work!

During the time when the Writing Contest happens, we have received a lot of nice stories and letters from participants at different ages all over Vietnam. All stories and letters about “TET IN VIETNAM” from participants have made us so touched with emotional and sincere feelings expressed deeply under attractive and meaningful words. It was so hard for us to decide which stories would be the best ones; therefore, we had to work very strictly and carefully to read, consider and mark so as to find out the most outstanding stories.

And today we are announcing the results of this contest.

The three winners of this contest are:

The 1st prize: Tran Thao Linh (23/03/2002) - Thai Nguyen

You will get 800.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

The 2nd prize: Nguyen Thi Hong Hue (04/04/1995) – Tuyen Quang

You will get 600.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

The 3rd prize: Le Thi Thu Thanh (14/10/1981) – Quang Tri

You will get 400.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

Apart from those three prizes, as we have mentioned in the rule of this Writing Contest, there are 12 other excellent writing products chosen to be included in a collection of stories about “TET IN VIETNAM”. The writer of each chosen writing product is given 100.000 VND. Honestly, we want to select 12 excellent writing products; however, due to some objective reasons, we can choose only 5 best writing products from these writers:

• Nguyen Thi Van Anh (24/12/1995) - Quang Ninh: You will get 100.000 VND
• Nguyen Thi Ba (02/05/1995) - Bac Ninh: You will get 100.000 VND
• Le Thi Thu Thanh (14/10/1981) – Quang Tri (2 stories): You will get 200.000 VND
• Cao Thi Thanh Hang – Vinh Phuc: You will get 100.000 VND

Congratulations to three winners and writers of 5 best stories chosen to be included in the collection about “TET IN VIETNAM”. 

Please contact us as soon as possible via email: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com so that we can reward you as soon as possible!

You guys please update our collection of stories with the theme “TET IN VIETNAM”!

We will soon edit and update the stories in the collection of stories about “TET IN VIETNAM” on our website: elticenter.wordpress.com.

And the collection of stories about “TET IN VIETNAM” will be finished and published by May, 2015. We hope that you guys will follow our activities and wait for this interesting and emotional collection about TET.

For those who are not lucky enough to win the contest, don’t be sad and worried because we will soon return with more interesting programs and contests as well!

Please follow us on Facebook Fanpage:

https://www.facebook.com/elticenter?fref=ts to update our new activities...

... and become readers of our website:

https://elticenter.wordpress.com/ to read our new posts in term of English Language Teaching (ELT).

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Once again thank you very much!

Happy New Year!

Wish you a new successful year with a good health, enjoyment and blooming career!

ELT iCenter

Cuộc thi viết "TẾT VIỆT" chào đón TẾT 2015

Nhân dịp kỉ niệm 6 tháng khởi động dự án ‘Website ELT iCenter” (http://elticenter.wordpress.com) và đón chào Tết 2015, ELTICENTER trân trọng tổ chức cuộc thi viết với chủ đề “TẾT VIỆT”.

ELT iCenter là một trung tâm trực tuyến với các sứ mệnh là phổ biến thông tin về các nguồn học bổng và thúc đẩy hoạt động đổi mới trong giảng dạy tiếng Anh tại Việt Nam.

Cuộc thi “TẾT VIỆT” được tổ chức với mục đích tạo ra một sân chơi tích cực cho những người học tiếng Anh rèn luyện kĩ năng viết tiếng Anh của mình. Đồng thời, chúng tôi cũng mong muốn sẽ tuyển chọn được những bài viết xuất sắc nhất từ các thí sinh tham dự cuộc thi này để xuất bản một ấn phẩm với chủ đề “TẾT VIỆT”.

I. Ban tổ chức Cuộc Thi

-Trưởng ban: Ông Melvyn Sakaguchi. Ed.D, giám đốc chương trình Giáo Dục Quốc Tế Hawaii

-Uỷ viên 1:Ong Thị Kim Yến – Biên tập viên (BTV) của website ELT icenter (http://elticenter.wordpress.com/)

+Email: sherry.yen91@gmail.com

-Uỷ viên 2: Bùi Thanh Hương – BTV(BTV) của website ELT icenter (http://elticenter.wordpress.com/)

+Email: huong.iaestevietnam@gmail.com

II. Cơ cấu giải thưởng

• 1 giải nhất: 800.000 VND tiền mặt và giấy chứng nhận của ELT icenter
• 1 giải nhì: 600.000 VND tiền mặt và giấy chứng nhận của ELT icenter
• 1 giải ba: 400.000 VND tiền mặt và giấy chứng nhận của ELT icenter

Ngoài 3 giải Nhất, Nhì, Ba, chúng tôi sẽ chọn ra 12 bài viết xuất sắc khác để xây dựng nội dung cho ấn phẩm “TẾT VIỆT” được xuất bản bởi ELTICENTER. Tác giả của mỗi bài viết được lựa chọn cho ấn phẩm này sẽ nhận được một khoản nhuận bút trị giá 100.000 VND.  

Tổng giá trị giải thưởng: 3.000.000 VND

Giải thưởng được trao trực tiếp hoặc chuyển khoản và gửi qua đường bưu điện.

III. Đối tượng tham dự cuộc thi

-Tất cả những đối tượng yêu thích tiếng Anh ở mọi lứa tuổi

IV. Thời gian diễn ra cuộc thi

Thí sinh gửi bài viết tham dự cuộc thi trong khoảng thời gian: 05/02/2015  05/03/2015

Ngày công bố kết quả cuộc thi (dự kiến): 15/03/2015

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Quá trình tuyển chọn ra chủ nhân của ba giải Nhất, Nhì, Ba và 12 bài viết xuất sắc nhất sẽ diễn ra trực tiếp trong một chuyến công tác tại Hà Nội vào ngày 10/03/2015. Cụ thể, tất cả các bài viết được gửi về từ các thí sinh tham dự cuộc thi sẽ được in ra giấy và chấm điểm trực tiếp bởi Ban Tổ Chức cuộc thi.

Tiêu chí đánh giá:

Các bài viết sẽ được đánh giá với 5 tiêu chí bao gồm: tính chân thực, cách sử dụng từ ngữ và vận dụng ngữ pháp, thông điệp, bố cục và tính thuyết phục của bài viết.

Kết quả của cuộc thi sẽ được công bố trên website và fan page của ELTICENTER.

Link website: http://elticenter.wordpress.com

Link Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/elticenter?ref=ts&fref=ts

V. Chủ đề của cuộc thi

Chủ đề của cuộc thi viết này là tất cả mọi thứ liên quan đến đề tài: “TẾT VIỆT”

(Gợi ý: con người, động thực vật, những kí ức về Tết, danh lam thắng cảnh, di tích lịch sử, ẩm thực, truyện dân gian, các hoạt động và trờ chơi dân gian, lễ hội hoặc sự khác biệt giữa Tết truyền thống và Tết hiện đại, v.v

VI. Thể lệ cuộc thi

Các bài viết tham dự cuộc thi phải là các bài viết được viết bằng TIẾNG ANH và gửi trực tiếp về địa chỉ: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com từ ngày 05/02/2015 – 05/03/2015. Email và file bài viết đính kèm của thí sinh cần ghi rõ chủ đề email là: “Elticenter Writing Contest – Họ & Tên đầy đủ của thí sinh”.

Bài viết tham dự cuộc thi cần có độ dài ít nhất là 300 từ, viết bằng tiếng Anh, màu chữ đen với MS Word 2003 hoặc 2007.

Bất cứ bài viết nào bị phát hiện có dấu hiệu đạo văn sẽ bị hủy bỏ ngay lập tức.

Ban tổ chức cuộc thi không chịu trách nhiệm cho các bài thi bị thất lạc, gửi muộn hay tình trạng lỗi email hoặc bất kì sự cố điện tử nào khác.

*Các thí sinh tham dự cuộc thi vui lòng ghi rõ thông tin cá nhân của mình: “Họ & Tên đầy đủ, Số CMT, Địa Chỉ và Điện Thoại Liên Lạc” trong email gửi bài tới cuộc thi.

BTC xin trân trọng cảm ơn tất cả thí sinh tham dự cuộc thi Viết về “TẾT VIỆT” của chúng tôi.

BTC mong muốn các thí sinh sẽ khuyến khích bạn bè của mình tham dự cuộc thi và trở thành độc giải của website ELTICENTER.

Để hiểu rõ hơn về cuộc thi, vui lòng liên lạc với chúng tôi qua hòm thư điện tử: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com

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English version: https://elticenter.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/writing-contest-tet-in-vietnam-to-welcome-lunar-new-year-2015/

Writing Contest “TET IN VIETNAM” to welcome Lunar New Year 2015

On the 6 month anniversary of launching the project “Website ELT iCenter” and welcome Lunar New Year 2015, we are happy to announce the Writing Contest “TET IN VIETNAM”

ELT iCenter is an online hub with the missions of disseminating updated information and promoting innovative practices in English language teaching throughout Vietnam.

The Writing Contest “TET IN VIETNAM” is organized in order to create a good environment for English learners to practice their English writing skill. Simultaneously, We also hope to collect the best writing products from participants in this contest to make and publish a collection of stories about TET in Vietnam.

I. Contest organizing committee

Senior Advisor: Ed.D. Melvyn Sakaguchi ­ Director of Hawaii International Education Program.

Commissioner 1: Ong Thi Kim Yen – Co-Editor of the website ELT iCenter

(http://elticenter.wordpress.com/)

+ Email: sherry.yen91@gmail.com

Commissioner 2: Bui Thanh Huong –Co- Editor of the website ELT iCenter

(http://elticenter.wordpress.com/)

+ Email: huong.iaestevietnam@gmail.com

II. Prize structures

1 first prize award: 800.000 VND in cash and a certificate of ELT iCenter

1 second prize award: 600.000 VND in cash and a certificate of ELT iCenter

1 third prize award: 400.000 VND in cash and a certificate of ELT iCenter

Apart from those three prizes, there will be 12 other writing products selected to be published in a collection of stories about TET by ELT ICENTER. The writer of each chosen writing product will be given 100.000 VND.

The total value of prizes: 3.000.000 VND

The Prizes are awarded directly in cash or transfer and the certificate is sent by post.

III. Who can participate?

Everyone who loves English at all ages can take part in this contest.

IV. Time of the contest

Submission: February 05th, 2015 – March 05th, 2015

The date of the awards: March 15th, 2015

Awardee will be announced and contacted by the Contest Organizing Committee from

March 10th to March 20th, 2015 via email or by phone. If in this time, the awardee do not contact with the Committee, the prizes will be automatically transferred to the charitable foundation affiliated with the Hawaii International Education Program.

The process of selecting the three winners of three prizes and 12 best writing products will be conducted directly at a business trip in Ha Noi on March 10th, 2015. Concretely, all writing products from participants will be printed in paper and remarked directly by Contest Organizing Committee.

Contest judging:

Stories will be judged by using five criteria including: Authenticity, Word choice and Grammar Usage, Messages, Organization, and Impact.

The results of the contest will be made public on the website and fan page of  ELTICENTER!

Link website: http://elticenter.wordpress.com

Link Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/elticenter?ref=ts&fref=t

V. Themes of the writing contest

The theme of this writing contest includes everything related to the topic “TET IN VIETNAM”.

(Suggestions: people,  plants and animals, nice memories about Tet, beautiful landscapes, historical relics, cuisine, folk stories, folk activities and games, ceremonies and festivals, differences between Tet at present and Tet in the past, etc)

VI. Regulations of the contest

Stories must be written in ENGLISH and directly submitted to the email: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com  between February 05th, 2015 and March 05th , 2015. Your email and attachment should be titled as “Elticenter Writing Contest – Your Full Name”

Stories must be at least 300 words, submitted in English, type-written in black ink and double space with MS Word 2003 or 2007.

Any stories found to be plagiarized will be automatically disqualified.

Contest organizers are not responsible for lost, late or misdirected mail or any other electronic malfunction.

*Please specify your personal information in your submission email: Full name, ID Number, Address and Phone Number.

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We would like to thank all of you who participate in our Writing Contest.

Please encourage your friends to participate in our Contest, and become viewers of our website.

Wish you all the best with very warm and happy days of the winter.

For more detail about the contest, please contact us via: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com

Vietnamese version: https://elticenter.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/cuoc-thi-viet-tet-viet-chao-don-tet-2015/

Excerps, Teaching with Technology Course

Learn to Blend and Flip your Classes with Technology

Course Description

The course offers new, veteran, and future teachers theoretical and practical knowledge on how to teach and learn using technology. The course will include weekly synchronous live online classes, course material, and video tutorials.

Participants will learn about and apply:

• E-portfolios (blogs, websites, wikis)
• Learning theories
• Transformational learning
• Transformational teaching
• Teaching as a way to learn
• Project-based learning
• Collaborative learning
• Instructional design theories
• Assessment theories
• Reflective practice
• Blended learning
• Blended online learning
• Teaching in a live online class
• Course design
• Syllabus development
• Lesson plans
• Course and Learning Management System
• Micro teaching
• For more details, please read at: https://www.wiziq.com/course/92339-teaching-with-technology

Call for Applications 2015, Global undergraduate exchange scholarship program

UNITED STATES EMBASSY HANOI

UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL HO CHI MINH CITY

PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION

Call for Applications

2015 GLOBAL UNDERGRADUATE EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The Public Affairs Sections (PAS) seek candidates for the 2015 Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD). First, second, or third-year undergraduate students who demonstrate leadership through academic excellence, community involvement, and extracurricular activities, and who have a good command of English, are invited to apply for the program. The application deadline is 5:00 PM, Friday, February 27, 2015.

Program Description

Funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Global UGRAD provides scholarships for one semester (approximately five months), enabling undergraduate students to study in a non-degree program at U.S. universities. The goal of the program is to provide a diverse group of emerging student leaders with a substantive exchange experience at a U.S. college or university.

For the academic year 2015-16, the program will place approximately 250 outstanding undergraduate students from East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Near East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere for non-degree, full time study at U.S. colleges and universities, starting in August 2015 or January 2016. In addition, participants who do not meet host

institution language requirements will be eligible for two to four weeks of intensive English language instruction in the United States prior to the start of the academic portion of their program. Pre-academic English will take place in the fall semester of 2015-2016; the academic portion will commence for all students in the spring semester. Vietnam can nominate up to 8 candidates for this program.

For more information, please read at:

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/vietnam/8621/pdf-forms/ugrad2015-announcement.pdf

Excerpt: A Beginner's Guide to Writing in English for University Study

Learn how to use English for study at university or college and develop your writing skills, vocabulary and grammar.

ABOUT THE COURSE

If you’re interested in studying at university or college in an English-speaking country, you’ll need to learn how to write using academic English. Academic writing can be very different from other types of English writing you may have done in the past. We have developed this course to help you learn the basics of academic writing and develop your English skills for study in the UK, US, Australia or other countries where English is used.

This course will provide you with a brief introduction to academic writing, enabling you to gain an awareness and understanding of some key features of this kind of writing. You’ll learn using a mix of video, on-screen examples, discussions, and quizzes.

For more information, please read at:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/english-for-study

Excerpt: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), new session begins February 9, 2015

NEW SESSION BEGINS FEBRUARY 9, 2015

SHAPING THE WAY WE TEACH ENGLISH, A MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC) PREPARED BY AND FOR ENGLISH-TEACHING PROFESSIONALS, HAS LAUNCHED FOR 2015 THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON AND COURSERA. THE FREE PROGRAM IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE EDUCATORS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THEIR TEACHING METHODS.

The University of Oregon developed the course, which had a successful pilot run this past summer when it was first hosted on the Coursera platform. The new course will begin in January with two separate 5-week sessions separated by a two week break. The course offers a unique, multimedia-rich collaborative environment where participants can interact with top-ranked English-language educators from all over the world.

For more information, please read at:

http://americanenglish.state.gov/mooc-english-teaching-professionals

https://www.coursera.org/course/shaping2paths

A warm meaningful meeting with winners of Lucky Drawing Contest by ELT iCenter

On January 13rd, ELT iCenter held a warm meeting with winners of Lucky Drawing Contest to award them certificates of ELT iCenter and the amount of money in cash in equivalent with their prizes as prescribed in the rules of the contests. Although there were 3 winners of the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd prizes, only the winners of the 2nd and the 3rd prizes attended the meeting. The winner of the 1st prizes lived in Nam Dinh, which was approximately 200 km from Thai Nguyen, so she could not come to Thai Nguyen due to her busy schedule. However, ELT iCenter did send her certificate and awards by the form of transferring at banks and sending via post offices.

About the place where the meeting happened, instead of celebrating a formal event as usual, editors of ELT iCenter decided to meet winners of the contest at Coffe Hollic in the centre of Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam to have an informal talk with winners.

  The meeting warmly began with an introduction about ELT iCenter. Ms. Sherry yen – Editor of ELT iCenter provided the winners with a brief background of ELT iCenter whose purposes are to promote English language teaching in Vietnam and disseminate various types of scholarships and grants as well for those who may concern.

The meeting continued with winners’ sharing about the reason why they had known about the Lucky Drawing Contest by ELT iCenter. Both of the winners of the 3rd and the 2nd prizes said that they had known about the contest via their friends. Generally, at first, the winners were a little shy. However, because of the friendly attitude of 2 editors, the winners comfortably shared with two editors of ELT iCenter about their study. Surprisingly, they were both students of School of Foreign Language, Thai Nguyen University - the same school with two editors of ELT iCenter.

The story seemed to be more exciting when two editors kept quiet to pay attention to their expressing about difficulties in learning English. Ms. Dieu – the winner of the 3rd prize mentioned that she was not confident in her ability of English language, so she found it hard to speak and communicate in English as fluently as others. Similarly, Ms. Hue – the winner of the 3rd prize faces a lot of troubles in listening to English. Both winners seemed to be diffident in themselves and were seeking for the best methods to improve their English language proficiency.

Enthusiastically, Ms. Sherry Yen gave them a lot of good advices that they can apply to practice speaking and listening to English. Concretely, Ms. Sherry Yen told her stories of learning English when she was student at SFL, TNU. I remembered she said that she did enjoy listening English via popular channels like CNN, BBC at every noon when she cooked. At first, she could not understand the content of the speeches or talks made by speakers of each program. Gradually, after regular practices, she amazingly recognized the content that speakers of CNN or BBC was making on each program and she was so happy of that. Moreover, she also introduced to winners some common English clubs for students in Thai Nguyen such as ICC English Club, Community English Club, TNUT English Club, etc so that they can come there to meet new friends and practice communicating in English with others. 

And as a common rule of life, the meeting nearly came to an end even though no one wanted to leave. Two editors of ELT iCenter said that they were so glad to meet the winners and they hoped that the winners would also attend further activities held by elt icenter. Then on behalf of ELT iCenter, Ms. Sherry Yen awarded the two winners certificates of ELT iCenter and their equivalent prizes as in the contest. They both looked so happy to receive their prizes and they also promised to be regular readers who would usually update information published by ELT iCenter. *** Finally, the meeting with winners of Lucky Drawing Contest by ELT iCenter finished with a lot of regrets from both winners and editors. All wished that they would have more time to talk to each other. *** 

Personally, being a part of ELT iCenter project with a position of an editor is one of the most meaningful achievements I could achieve this year. And celebrating this Lucky Drawing Contest did give us a lot of memorable experiences. We did try to make a well-running contest with all our possibilities even with the smallest things. Sis Sherry Yen and I may never forget the feeling of discussing about the rules of the contest, waiting for the time to start it and preparing carefully everything to make the video of selecting winners through the forms of drawing randomly and announcing results for the winners of the contest. Thanks to organizing the contest, we had a good opportunity to be the organizers of a contest which requires us a lot of skills like team-work, time management, writing scenario and controlling a program like real MCs on TV shows.

  Sincerely, all these useful lessons which we have learnt from organizing the contest encourages us to better complete our jobs as editors of ELT iCenter so as to provide readers with the best quality posts and the most meaningful programs including contests or interviews to great people who are interested in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). And as we have promised, we will soon return with more impressing activities! Let update our information on this site and Facebook fan page of ELT iCenter.

Once again, thank you so much for all participants in Lucky Drawing Contest and all those who have visited and contributed to build and develop our ELT iCenter website project. We are looking forward to more feedbacks from you so that we can expand the content of ELT iCenter Website. Many thanks in advance!

Announcement on the results of the Lucky Drawing Contest by ELT iCenter!

Dear guys!

We would like to give our deepest thanks to your attending our Lucky Drawing Contest despite your busy time with a lot of work!

And today we are announcing the results of this contest.

The three winners of this contest are:

The 1st prize: Tran Thi Thuy Linh - You will get 500.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

The 2nd prize: Nguyen Thi Hong Hue - You will get 300.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

The 3rd prize: Ninh Thi Dieu - You will get 200.000 VND and 1 certificate by ELTiCenter

Congratulations to three luckiest winners of this contest! Please contact us as soon as possible via email: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com so that we can reward you as soon as possible!

You guys please watch our video below to see the progress we have made to select the winners of this contest through the form of drawing randomly lucky tickets in the box!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvOnKzfjlg

And please read this post to know the result of this survey:

https://elticenter.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/survey-results-on-personal-opinions-about-the-old-age-carried-out-by-elt-icenter/

For those who are not lucky enough to win the contest, don’t be sad and worried because we will soon return with more interesting programs and contests as well!

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Once again thank you very much!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wish you a new successful year with a good health, enjoyment and blooming career!

ELT iCenter

Survey results on personal’ opinions about the old age carried out by ELT iCenter

Recently, ELTiCenter has organized a Lucky Drawing Contest throught a survey on personal’ opinions about the old age with three following questions:

1. At what age do you think a person is old?
2. At what age do you think a man is old?
3. At what age do you think a woman is old?

The questions in this “Drawing Contest” are taken from an article in AARP: The Magazine, February/ 2014.

The survey attracted many participants at various ages, mostly the young at the age between 19 and 23.

And these are the most common results summarized from participants’ answers:

A person is old at the age of: 50-55 or 60-65

A man is old at the age of: 40-45 or 50-59

A woman is old at the age of: 30-35 or 50-59

As you can see from the results above, it seems that the young are very optimistic ones who are not afraid of the old age.

Once more special thing is that most young woman at around their twenty think that they will get old at the age of around 30 and 35. (Women are a little worried about their beauty in the future, right?)

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Besides all those popular answers, we did receive many interesting answers like:

A person is old at 22 when he starts a job.

A man is old at the age when he gets married

A woman is old at the age when she was born

(by Doan Minh)

A person is old at the chronological age

A man is old when his child go to High school

A woman is old when she has two children

(by Hoang Anh)

A person is old at not any age

A man is old at not any age

A woman is old at not any age

(by bui chi , quynh huong)

A person is old when their physical health is no longer good anymore; therefore, it might depend on that person. Moreover, in our Vietnamese traditional culture, we define the "old" person, when he/she has so many life experience, and he/she becomes successful in their life.

Using number to define how old a person is not a good idea at all.

(by Vu Pham)

A person is old when they could not work anymore

A woman is old when she is no longer beautiful in the eyes of her husband

(by Bui Ngoc Huyen)

A person is old at the age of death

A man is old at the age of death

A woman is old at the age of death

(by  La Thị Quyên)

A person is old when everything is enough. Be happy and stop worrying what other people think about you! Be yourselves; stop trying to conform to what others like. To think, learn and live for yourselves and have happier stronger more fulfilling lives.

(by Nguyen Thi Mai)

A person is old when he/she stops learning - stops being a student of life.

A man is old when he thinks he is old.

A woman is old when she thinks she's old.

(by Loui Gilbert Webb )

A person is old when they can enjoy their life just by finding happiness by spending time with their family.

(by Huong Lien)

How about your opinions about the old ages? Let share with us and comment below or send to our gmail address: elticenter.hiep@gmail.com

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

By ELT iCenter