If you have a CELTA and an MA then you've probably covered most of the things in a DELTA. It's a good qualification but I think you probably don't need it,...
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...
May 1, 2007 10:53 am
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Maybe some of you remember some weeks back how I was talking about China's increasing illiteracy rate and how that might be important in our consideration of...
Some teachers take a contrastive analysis approach and try to figure out what sounds appear in English that don't appear in Chinese. Take the theta (TH)...
Hi Paul, The qualifications are nt essential or pre-requisite for a position as a DoS, but the DO help.As Mr. Tibbets mentions, status is a factor to consider....
foreigner@...
May 2, 2007 1:54 am
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... In my experience of teaching in China now for nearly 7 years now I have to say that students sticking their tongues out to make the theta sound as Mert...
... I know that Nick and you know that but not all the list members teach uni level students. Some who argue about fluency rather than accuracy at lower levels...
... Russ, You have mis-represented what Mert has described. Mert suggests "their tongue just protruding beyond the upper incisors and walk around checking for...
Mert: Now this is nithe (nice?). Thank you. Peter Neu ... that are exactly alike except for the one phoneme: I didn't succeed though I tried again/I didn't...
... Perhaps a more relevant question we should be asking ourselves is why, if students are not as literate as before, should we be teaching English writing...
... I have been teaching writing to Japanese high school students for twelve years, and before that, to Japanese and Chinese college students for another ten ...
... True, you may get students to spit, but that doesn't mean it's not an effective way to teach the pronunciation of TH -- even though you can argue isn't...
On the issue of tongue position for pronouncing th sounds I looked up in "Linguistics:An Introduction" (1999) by eds. Radford, Atkinson et all Cambridge ...
... The TH sound is usually refered to as an interdental, which implies that the tip of the tongue is placed between the upper and lower teeth. However, native...
Does anyone think that if Chinese used pin yuan or some other alphabet symbol instead of characters that have no connection to speech that people would learn...
Hello all, Thanks to those that have responded to my query regarding the usefulness of the DELTA in China. I agree that it certainly can't do any harm to have...
... 'interdental' and ... I'm not an interdental guy. I prefer tongue behind the teeth, like the vast majority of NS. If you teach someone to move away from...
... I don't. There is a big difference between having learners grabbing their tongues as Tsc Tempest was talking about, seeing their tongues as Mert suggests ...
Nick Stirk muses on the subject of the Chinese written language and wonders about the effect of one's literacy in Chinese on the learning of written English....
... I'm interdental. It's hard for me to envision a tongue not protruding from behind the upper and lower teeth while /th/ing. I teach my students to ...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
May 3, 2007 12:01 pm
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Hi All I use a slightly different tact I explain that th has no sound of it's own and the sound you hear after th is dependent on the vowel following. I then...
I think that this a good website that talks about sounds. It was developed by Peter Ladefoged an expert in this field. He was a consultant for the movie My ...
... In 1994 I was in a group that visited Beijing Normal University, where they had done research on the learning of languages. They said that an alphabetical...
Ria Smit
tryria@...
May 3, 2007 12:51 pm
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... and this is exactly what I was warning against in my first posting on this subject, the extra saliva problem. Primary school students I taught loved ...
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