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...
Jun 1, 2007 10:08 am
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... I think, in the case of the negative question, English speakers CAN use 'yeah' to indicate agreement with the supposed opinion of the questioner, or...
Greg Matheson
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Jun 1, 2007 10:49 am
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No, it's not misteaching so much as L1 interference. Dick Tibbetts ... like this" Yes, I don't. Since it's more or less across the board, I'm assuming...
... Thanks Nelson for the insight on shi or dui, it clears up a lot of things for me, as in: 'Shi' or 'dui', the Yes words in Chinese, mean "I agree with the ...
I have, earlier, sent the main part of this around to a few other posters, Nancy, Nelson and Dick, but I thought I would post it here now. ... I may simply...
Yes, I think I understand your point. However, it would be interesting to check it out with your students again. While at it, say the same tag question in...
David Roland wrote: For clarity when teaching L2s, explain that when western speakers will ask a question such as, "You're not Superman, are you?" they expect...
John Pullen wrote: Yes, I think I understand your point. However, it would be interesting to check it out with your students again. While at it, say the same...
Peter Thwaites wrote. Whatever decision we make regarding the teaching of questions like these (and tag questions are also highly context-dependent), we need...
... James, Notwithstanding your long experience in teaching Chinese students, I think you must have experienced an extraordinary cohort if you haven't come...
As a generality (in their respective native languages, of course, neither English speakers nor Chinese do this mindfully, intentionally, or with awareness) yet...
I doubt very much that Chinese don't understand and reply to implied meanings when they are using Chinese within Chinese culture. Implied meaning (sort of like...
Karen Stanley wrote: I doubt very much that Chinese don't understand and reply to implied meanings when they are using Chinese within Chinese culture. ... If I...
... My knowledge of Chinese is not sufficient to make a judgement on one language but I think it is in the nature of language and human communication to use...
I think we can also see the impact of culture on implications if we take one of James's original examples. ... James: for example: if I see you on a sunny day...
Karen Stanley wrote: While I realize that this was only one of many possible examples, if you consider the fact that there are still a fair number of Chinese ...
Hi, Dick, Thank you very much for the interesting comments! Sorry for replying late, it took me some time to figure out how to use the forum as it was my first...
maggyyy
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Jun 4, 2007 2:32 pm
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Thanks a lot for reply, Dave! It is true that assessment of teaching written/reading English should be very different from that of oral English! But I guess...
maggyyy
magmeng@...
Jun 4, 2007 2:34 pm
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Karen Stanley wrote: If James had been carrying a furled umbrella on a sunny day, and someone Chinese said to him, "Doesn't the bright sun bother you?", it's...
MODERATOR NOTE: In deference to the usefulness of what Steve offers at the end, and because we all understand the need to rant at times, I'm putting through...
Stephen McNeill
chinesefiction@...
Jun 5, 2007 12:17 am
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... I feel fine about it. I've been here in Macau for 16 years. I did 2 years in Hong Kong before that and I wasn't so keen. The conditions in the school I...
Maggie. Your comments and questions were directed to Dick, so I don't write to offer my opinions on the issues you mentioned. But, I do know Australians doing...
Dear list members, If you have written English teaching materials or lesson plans that may be helpful to *any* other teachers either directly or as seed...
I'm leaving the college I work at at the end of this semester – and leaving China. I'm 60 this summer, which is standard retirement age for women in Britain,...
Jennifer Wallace
jenniferwallaceuk@...
Jun 6, 2007 1:54 am
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I'm wrestling with a corporate problem in Beijing. The trainees need assistance in dealing with their outsourced IT providers in places such as India. Aside...
I've taught my final classes in my present job, am now doing the final marks, and am about to start sorting out and packing up to go home - and am signing off...
Jennifer Wallace
jenniferwallaceuk@...
Jun 11, 2007 3:16 am
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Further to my previous reply: If problem reporting forms and logs do exist then it will be an exercise ib determining the vocabulary for each field on the form...
... Terence I presume that you mean english language that can be used in dealing with IT problems. Whilst I cannot help specifically on language it might be...
Yet a further reply. I teacha competency based course here at BCBI, in this course students learn how to deal with particular situations using english as the ...
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