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TEFLChina--discussing teaching English as a foreign language in China

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TEFLChina--(teach)--classroom techniques and problems, tips, lesson plans, materials, Q&A on teaching EFL / ESL
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Flipping the classroom
Dear All, Here's an article with specific examples of how to flip a classroom, something Dave Kees often recommends.  It's about elementary classrooms, but
Posted - Tue May 14, 2013 6:06 pm
Margaret Orleans
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basic sounds
<basic sounds> ... think that they cannot pronounce the /r/. They actually have that sound in their phonemic inventory. The word for 'two' is 'er', with
Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 1:49 pm
Dave
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Re: basic sounds
<"ri" as in riben> The initial 'r' is fricatized.  It isn't in English.  I'm using the U.S. English 'r' in /r/.  The 'r' in Mandarin 'er' sounds just like
Posted - Fri May 10, 2013 11:32 am
Nelson Bank
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Re: basic sounds
I thought r-controlled vowels were slightly different from initial /r/? The "ri" as in riben or riyong is different from English's initial /r/, isn't it?
Posted - Thu May 9, 2013 11:24 am
nate jarvis
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Re: basic sounds
<basic sounds> There's some confusion with the /r/ and /l/.  It seems Chinese students think that they cannot pronounce the /r/.  They actually have that
Posted - Wed May 8, 2013 4:34 pm
Nelson Bank
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