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...
Jul 1, 2007 9:50 am
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Hi Folks, I was wondering if anybody knows this book and if it's of any value at all? (Note: the authors are from Singapore.) Teaching English to Students from...
Hi Steven, While I haven't read this book, I'd read it with a jaundiced eye if I were you since it is edited by educators unfamiliar to me in my own research...
Rick Sjoquist
rickinchina06@...
Jul 2, 2007 10:35 am
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... I think the uni kids have learnt something else but I'll ask next year. I wonder how they explain the change - maybe they don't... Dave Nevin...
Dave
nevin@...
Jul 5, 2007 6:46 am
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Do a wikipedia search on Peking Man, rather than Zoukoudian (sic) Man or Zhoukoudian Man and get some relevant info before it gets blocked again. The claim ...
[was: (JOB) Nanhai Campus of South China Normal University, Foshan ] Dick Tibbets: I agree with your evaluation about teaching spoken English. This last ...
[ Was: (JOB)Nanhai Campus of South China Normal University, Foshan,] Dick Tibbetts thinks teaching spoken English is much more difficult than the work of part...
Have you included bug/problem and testing results reporting? Based on what is outsourced, you can more or less work out what aspects need to be dealt with. ...
Dimitri Ang
dimitri.ang@...
Jul 11, 2007 2:03 pm
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If we are teaching English, then maybe we should use it properly. There appears to be a trend towards using a phrase wrongly, as in Yeats: ..."our hearts...
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is available free online. This is not oriented towards language teachers, but would ...
... I've heard "could care less" in US English though not in British English and a quick look at Cobuild, BNC and Micase seems to show that it is a US...
... Hey, steady on Mert, that's not oral communication. However, I take Mert's point that learning spoken English means you can make use of instant visual and...
Maybe David is referring to a difference between what is customary in the U.K. vs what is customary in America; but in the Midwest -- where I am from -- we...
Think of the meaning, then the correct English becomes obvious! David West ... the U.K. vs what is customary in America; but in the Midwest -- where I am from...
... surprised if it didn't rain." both of which have the same meaning. Not in the States. One you would say in the desert (expecting it to rain in spite of...
In China these kids have no common interest outside of video games. They are mostly loosers who do not care about learning anything.. only vomitting it back.....
Leslie Warren
jxrecruiter@...
Jul 12, 2007 4:52 am
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The kids have never had the opportunity to develop any interest. I have been teaching senior middle schools for three years. The students are mainly from poor...
Hi all, I'm writing an essay about 'community' in relation to learning English. Do all Chinese universities have FETs? Obviously those we work in, do. But are...
Dave
nevin@...
Jul 12, 2007 5:57 am
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... rain in ... reason). When I wrote the above I didn't check a corpus. I now find that I can't find any examples of "I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't" in...
... pardon my ignorance and apologies for those in the know but what on Earth does FET mean? Thanks Russ Taylor ... Mod's Note: FET = Foreign English Teachers...
... dialect as an authority and to label other dialect usage as incorrect. Secondly you can't always look at language as logic. No, nay, never. No, nay, never...
... My Gawd Dave....You must know the answer is NO...the great majority of the thousands upon thousands of schools, colleges, universities...and then the ...
... _____________________________________________________ L2 learners should progress at a more rapid pace than NSs because they are more mature and have have...
Thank you Joe. I was going to let it drop. I am not from the academic field. I spent my life in business, where incorrect English can cost real money. Just one...
... _____________________________________________________ There are two ways to teach: deductive (top down - the teacher gives the rule and the student is...
... But the point being that it isn't 'incorrect', it's just different. I would have thought that part of our job as Foreign Teachers, Expert or not, is to get...
... A 16 year old NS is learning about 1000 new words per year in an L1 environment. Can we expect a 16 year old NNS with an L1 vocabulary of about 3000 words...
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