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...
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Mar 1, 2007 2:13 pm
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What rules? English is more a case of anarchy than rule following. The native speaker learns English on a case to case basis. Why then do we insist on...
... We don't teach archaic rules or rules that have so many exceptions that they aren't worth learning, or at least I don't. However some teachers do. To say...
Dick Tibbetts doesn't buy my let them make up their own rules proposition. So what rules should we teach? No split infinitives? Those monks who wrote this...
Can't keep myself from replying with what I know is a HUGE sweeping generalization. It's as much a question/proposition as an assertion: I think this rules...
... NS infants take 5 years of full time exposure to their L1 to internalise and acquire the "rules". My students have 3 hours a week so it would take them...
I had a student in my grammar class (at my community college, we teach discrete skills: classes in listening-speaking, grammar, reading & composition) who had...
... As do other X-native speakers. The focus on 'native' will almost impel us to include grammar in second-language instruction. The formalists have almost...
Nelson Bank
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Mar 6, 2007 12:26 am
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... Thanks Karen...I personally love these cross stories of Yanks in China and Chinese in America. In fact I love when the Chinese get into the other countries...
I just got a TOEFL publicity email that was all about studying abroad in Australia. I can't imagine they would do that if the TOEFL weren't either already...
... Hello Karen, It seems like a bit of (very) fanciful marketing to me. DIMIA *only* accepts IELTS (Academic or General) as a measure of competency of ...
I have a problem with the EF school that I used to work with and they are still owing me a month's salary. What do you think I can do about it? Farideh...
Go to the regional Foriegn Affairs Office in your city. They will have good English and they permit the school to employ foreigners, and they will stand up...
Ria Smit
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Mar 8, 2007 1:28 pm
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... You probably can't do much, but if you have some sort of documentation, you could go talk to a representative in the education department for the ...
... Hi Roger, I used to be the DOS at that EF school and talked to the Shanghai EF headquarters and the owner was not willing to abide by the contract and they...
I investigated a bit more, and discovered the information below about some universities in Australia. I had started out thinking I would put the whole list of...
My apologies to all listers. I should have approved these message for the JOB list, not here on TEACH. Please post all further messages on this topic to the...
... I should offer a correction here. Thank you, Karen, for pointing me in the right direction. For certain courses of study and particular countries of...
Thanks John for your suggestion. I think I will look into that and also see if I can contact the top people at EF in Manchester and Shanghai and if nothing...
How much does class size vary these days? And how does it vary depending on what type of institution you are teaching for? I'd be interested in knowing what...
Dear Karen: There is an interesting article in the 3/13/07 China Daily "Debt warning for universities." Due to budget constraints Chinese 3rd tier university...
Education Foundation of Europe - Introduction I am asking for your kind support for a new initiative. The initiative is called 'The Education Foundation of...
I teach at a vocational/technical college and my class sizes vary greatly. Last term I had as few as 17 in one class (Hotel English) to 34 (Tourism English)....
... find themselves with 160 students in each lecture. This is across the board in terms of subjects and majors. ... teaching an experemental holistic business...
... For my 60-70-pupil classes in China, I would have direct oral communication with every student at least once per class period, usually a question and...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Mar 14, 2007 11:31 pm
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Dear Karen, At my university the General English classes are about 16 (max 18). However the subject I teach, Academic reading & Writing, is taught by lecture...
I'm forwarding this to the list on behalf of Dave Kees. Karen ... Jack Richards is the author of the New Interchange series of coursebooks. Frankly, I think...
Last year, teaching only postgrad students in China, I found an exceptional international student from Nepal to assist me. I informed the department that I...
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