This is a clever trick that I learned on this list. I love it for its simplicity and efficiency. Ask all the students to write one question that they can ask...
On 10/31/06, dk <davekees1@...> wrote: "...but what do the universities want to prepare people for, exactly? any idea?" Students are forced to study...
... I'm not sure that this is useful for students if you think you're a great teacher when you are not. That smacks of nothing more than arrogance to me. It...
Dick Tibbets wrote: The Americas and pacific ring will tend towards a US pronunciation with Australian pockets in the south and Europe will stay British for a...
... assumption that NZ English will be subsumed by Australian ;-0. If anything NZ English is developing into a unique "Pacific" sub-language!! Vicki, please be...
What do I listen for to recognize the NZ/P differences? Just ask a Kiwi to say, "fish & chips". Alan Simpson...
alan
sningbo@...
Nov 1, 2006 11:08 pm
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(Mert) May I add one thought: it helps to think of yourself as a great teacher (even if you aren't). It gives you the self confidence and the aura that just...
Hi All, Roger has put a wiki online for teachers of English as a second or foreign language: http://wikigogy.org A wiki is a website where you can not just...
TEFLChina@yahoogroups...
Nov 2, 2006 3:44 am
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"It's somewhat misleading to equating a Polish girl being forced to study Russian to Chinese students being forced to study English." I said this is the reason...
Hi David B! How refreshing to read your opinion of the Chinese attitude to learning English in China. I agree with you regarding the comparison with Russian...
Stephanie Noke
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Nov 2, 2006 5:02 pm
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People who've been using this list for some time may remember Russ Taylor saying that the university he teaches at, Shenyang Normal, has introduced the Trinity...
Jennifer Wallace
jenniferwallaceuk@...
Nov 2, 2006 5:02 pm
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... Just ask a Kiwi to say, "fish & chips". Alan, can you try to sound it out for me in IPA or something? Thanks. Joe...
While I have no arguement with anything Dave Kees said in his recent posting about why Chinese students should or should not be motivated to learn English, I ...
... have no choice. Even if they have no interest in international business or communication or culture they must study English. Certainly some of our students...
"Merton Bland" mert_bland@... mert_bland wrote: Vicki, for us naive North Americans and Brits, what is the difference between the pronunciations found...
... Sorry Vicki. I missed out SA and Canada as well as New Zealand, but it was for reasons of economy in typing, not political. New Zealanders are great. My...
Hi, Or perhaps dialogue? Debate is deliberately win-lose. Discussion aligns with the drumbeat of percussion. ... The ladder of inference (googlable - and I...
... I'm not sure a bland version of English is an effective language for international communication. Most business communication involves empathy and...
... This is an interesting development I think especially when related to my students recent experiences. They are translation majors at the Normal Uni in...
... or ask someone from Seedney to say fush and chups. Seriously :-), I've been asked to teach NZ pronunciation next week...because a computer/isp/call centre...
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Nov 3, 2006 5:00 pm
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Recently, I put together a class of French and German students with a class of Chinese students (all undergrads). They spent a pleasant couple of hours...
... Thanks for the links to Simon's comments. It looks like the discussion was about "linguistic imperialism" and "cultural superiority" at the time, not about...
To add to the Kiwi vs Aussie pronunciation: If you listen to the business news (usually at 6pm) on CCTV9 and hear the Reuters correspondent from Hong Kong, ...
... The Russians, Japanese, Italian, Indian and Chinese students all learned English with NS English as a model. If you think about the language learning of...
... not? Any suggestions? Russ, when I first learned English (in Canada), I noticed that the vowel sound in each of the dialects had a unique placement in a...
... Like I said a few minutes ago, we tend not to be able to "hear" the sounds we can't produce. So, to understand the French speaking English, we simply need...
(Vic) Or perhaps dialogue? Debate is deliberately win-lose. Discussion aligns with the drumbeat of percussion. ... Better, still, might be "trialogues" in that...
Having been fortunate enough to visit Ireland, England, Scotland, and New Zealand, I thought that I was starting to be able to recongnize the similar but...
I found it quite interesting to find the study of Latin referred to in several recent posts. I was "forced" to study Latin for four years in high school back...
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