I am happy to answer your questions. ... **** It could be GSL or the first and second 1000 words by Nation, which could be the GSL. I do not know. The first...
Beniko Mason
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Mar 1, 2003 3:17 pm
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Dear Shawn Ladbrook, Uni Sets are a plastic board with stickers. The plastic boards have different situations, such as school, town, hospital, zoo, airports,...
Beniko Mason
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Mar 1, 2003 3:25 pm
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... Sorry about the long-winded reply, but I want to head off potential misunderstandings here. There are important traps to avoid in the use in the use of ...
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 12:59 am
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Beniko said ... I feel this is a reasonable amount to start with their first reader. But the reader probably has only 100 words in it and the vast majority...
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 1:26 am
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I am fully in Rob's camp on this one. ER is a great source of meaningful input, it's very interesting and motivating, it reinforces establishes and deepens...
... Yep, I did. That comes from rushing home for the sushi! -- Best regards Rob Waring waring@......
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 3:26 am
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Hi Rob, What is CI? I need time to work on the other message. This one is short and I think I can handle it now. I never said that ER is all they do, did I? My...
Beniko Mason
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Mar 3, 2003 5:52 am
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Hi Sorry about this folks, if this continues Beniko and I will move to private email. Beniko said. ... I never said you did. No one is discussing your...
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 6:58 am
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Regarding Rob W's recent post: As long as we are listing studies, have a look at the studies I cite and discuss in some detail in the following publications: ...
Stephen Krashen
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Mar 3, 2003 7:12 am
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OOps Beniko said ... I said ... This line should have been edited out sorry! I'm NOT disputing Beniko's evidence. It was cut and pasted there incorrectly....
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 7:16 am
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Rob, Sternberg's chapter and Pressley, Levin, and McDaniel's chapter - both deal with L1, not L2, just so we know what their claims are derived from.. Cheers,...
Andy Barfield
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Mar 3, 2003 8:19 am
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I think that while mnemonic devices have their place in vocabulary acquisition, but it is a small place. Their usefulness is constrained by the difficulty of...
gmjacobs
gmjacobs@...
Mar 3, 2003 1:04 pm
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Rob, I think people should read what we are talking to each other about. We should not hide. They can delete us if they are not interested in our discussion ....
Beniko Mason
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Mar 3, 2003 4:24 pm
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I agree with Beniko, and want to add this: One of the reasons people conclude that comprehensible input (CI) is not enough is that they haven't really tried...
Stephen Krashen
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Mar 3, 2003 6:22 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ExtensiveReading group: ER is beneficial but not sufficient to learn to read fluently in a second ...
ExtensiveReading@yaho...
Mar 3, 2003 9:11 pm
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I would like to outline briefly a hypothesis that I am developing about learning to read in a foreign language (FL). The reason that I would like to mention...
Richard R. Day
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Mar 3, 2003 9:42 pm
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Here is another poll: Empirical issues in education should be decided by vote. Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly disagree....
Stephen Krashen
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Mar 3, 2003 9:51 pm
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Hi there, My name is Juan Pino, make my home in Venezuela and have a long-lived interest in ER. I iniciated an ER program 11 years ago and I wouldn't want to...
... I am in limited agreement. No one suggests that keyword methods and mnemonics should be the only tool for learning vocab. No one as far as I know suggests...
Rob Waring
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Mar 3, 2003 11:41 pm
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Hi all Beniko says ... Yes Beniko. This is EXACTLY the place to do this. And exactly the right thing to do. One thing I value about this list is that we are ...
Rob Waring
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Mar 4, 2003 12:41 am
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Stephen said, ... I feel that input that is comprehensible is as close to "necessary" as one can get. But input should be made comprehensible in form focused...
Rob Waring
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Mar 4, 2003 1:02 am
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Richard said ... You have set yourself a tough, but admirable, task. You would have to define what what "only" means, what "reading" is, what "fluent" means....
Rob Waring
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Mar 4, 2003 1:10 am
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... Hi. I would like to echo all that Juan has said. ... PS I enjoyed your article in RIFL about 10 years ago, and the English Forum article. Have you written...
Rob Waring
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Mar 4, 2003 1:16 am
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In reply to Rob's posting about sufficient and effective, and how being clear on these is a first step in teachers and learners fitting it all together. ...
Julian Bamford
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Mar 4, 2003 1:54 am
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Julian said. ... I agree in general. ... It depends on how well the teacher can motivate them and make it an interesting exercise. There are tremendous...
Rob Waring
waring@...
Mar 4, 2003 2:14 am
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OOps! As moderator, I was just looking at the previous poll we did some time ago and noted that it was never closed. So I closed it. I then saw that Juan...
Rob Waring
waring@...
Mar 4, 2003 6:15 am
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The following ExtensiveReading poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What types of reading materials do you have your EFL / ESL...
ExtensiveReading@yaho...
Mar 4, 2003 6:15 am
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... Polls do not "decide" anything. This is an attempt to find out broadly what people think. -- Best regards Rob Waring waring@......
Rob Waring
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Mar 4, 2003 7:45 am
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Whose idea is this? Beniko Mason International Buddhist University 3-2-1 Gakuenmae, Habikino-shi, Osaka 583-8501 (Phone) 0729-56-3181 ... Add photos to your...
Beniko Mason
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Mar 4, 2003 8:28 am
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... **** It should have nothing to do whether it appeals to teachers or not. MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*....
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