I like several of the points James Gillis made in his posting about professionalism. I started teaching in the 1970s, in my own country, the UK, with no...
Jennifer Wallace
jenniferwallaceuk@...
Dec 1, 2006 2:37 pm
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Interestingly, the mining town I grew up had lots and lots of immigrants. My ywo best friends were Polish and Yugoslavian. However, these kids had no ESL ...
David Nunan
dcnunan@...
Dec 1, 2006 2:40 pm
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Thank you for sharing with us local teachers of English about TEFL in China from the point of views of teachers working in China.We do need this in our work.It...
... they ... business ... without pinyin ... that can ... I don't know enough about it but there are several ways. Certainly, most Cantonese speakers in Hong...
Hi: Can anyone suggest me any test or survey to examine students' audio or visual orientation? I'm wondering Chinese learners are more visual-oriented because...
I've just been using a new development from the activity I told Nancy back in the summer. One of my classes are English majors who specialise as interpretors....
Jennifer Wallace
jenniferwallaceuk@...
Dec 1, 2006 2:45 pm
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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...
Dec 1, 2006 3:16 pm
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Venny Sou asks if anyone can suggest any test or survey to examine students' audio or visual orientation? Hey, the Germans at Marburg were into this eidetic ...
... audio or visual orientation? ... the L1 characters. Is there any test or survey to examine students' audio or visual orientation? ... vocabulary. Is that...
To Jennifer. Not so Jennifer. Not whinging at all. I think you were quite concise actually, in so far as it is possible to be concise about matters of ...
Hey Russ, Please don't get me started. I know IELTS has put a lot of effort into this: designing the examination, training the examiners (I took that too),...
I have learned to type Chinese fairly quickly using the Windows Chinese language utility that allows you to use pin yin to type in characters to virtually any ...
How do you feel about checking your students' writing? Do you sometimes feel they are not learning from your corrections? Do you ever wish there was another...
Yes.. but MY ears still hear different than yours.. so rubrics or not.. still subjective !!! Leslie Warren Russ Taylor <russssch@...> wrote: ...the...
Leslie Warren
jxrecruiter@...
Dec 2, 2006 12:12 am
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Hi, I get my paired university student teachers to teach and translate to middle school students. It's somewhat similar to your case in that it's teaching...
MODERATOR NOTE: This thread is beginning to move a bit into the LIFE arena rather than the TEACH arena. Could contributors work towards tying things back...
McDonald's has worked very hard to standardize the look and taste of their hamburgers. Of course, there is some variance. Not every hamburger is exactly the...
... Chinese teachers are not using the L1 because they think it's the better way to teach English. They're using it because the pain created by student...
Greg Matheson
lang@...
Dec 2, 2006 12:58 pm
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Hi, Five senses and opportunity for five primary ways of learning, plus combinations, plus primary and secondary senses changing by circumstance. Your students...
I do recall some research that people can retain visual input better than audio input so I don't think it's so simple as to say that the difference can be...
I mostly agree with Jennifer and James. However, market forces are the 800-pound gorilla in the equation, especially in China. Switzerland, Germany, Japan and...
Venny Sou asked if there is a test to check the audio or visual orientation of students. One very effective way is to give a series of directions to go from...
... It seems the moderator is worried that this thread is beginning to move a bit into the LIFE arena rather than the TEACH arena. He begs contributors to...
Jennifer Wallace wrote (in part) ... . ... Thanks Jennifer. Good stuff. I have saved much of your advice onto my 'China Teach folder' over the years...as I...
Let us not push this artificial dichotomization too far. It is not a question of audio or visual. Indeed, the more stimuli involved, the faster the ...
... Would that be the rubric idea that is used by IELTS examiners Mert? The band descriptors for both writing and speaking parts of the IELTS exam are now...
Hi All! Got ideas how to do the conferences even better, or future guest suggestions! Don't hoard em, send em to Dave! Wow! Thanks Dave Kees and David Nunan!...
When Chinese sketch characters on their hands this is actually a visual rather than a kinesthetic phenomenon. For a clearer understanding of learning styles...
David Jackson
davidboydoggy@...
Dec 3, 2006 12:38 pm
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... Mert's right. However, culture can predispose a learner to accept one type of stimulus more readily than another. You can choose to build on this for...
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