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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Aug 1, 2007 9:54 am
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In the most current issue of the online journal TESL-EJ you can find two articles which explore issues involving Chinese students. The first: ...
Forwarded from the Language Testing Research and Practice email list. Karen karenstanleyma (at) yahoo.com ... http://lists.psu.edu/archives/ltest-l.html ... ...
I have a friend who is teaching a pronunciation class for the first time. In spite of the fact that he preferred a different schedule, he has been given a...
The "Side by Side" series is great. karenstanleyma <karen.stanley@...> wrote: .....I have made a few suggestions, but would be very interested in any ...
Stephen McNeill
chinesefiction@...
Aug 11, 2007 2:35 am
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I think the first step is to contact Epoch recruitment, look at Dave's ESL cafe and anywhere else where you might find a job with a sane employer. Four hours...
Dear Karen, Dick's comments are very pertinent especially in breaking a 4 hour stint into segments. If the class has access to a computer and/or multi media...
... An extension of a dictation exercise using a simplified phonemic alphabet - Students will read a text passage and transcribe it into phonemic notation. ...
Nelson Bank
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Aug 13, 2007 12:32 pm
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My good friend, Dick Tibbetts, came up with a number of great suggestions for Karen Stanley's friend who is teaching a pronunciation class for the first time. ...
I wonder if one possible tactic might be to explain to the person who has ordered this 4 hour class just what the problems are and then to offer them a sample...
... time. In spite of the fact that he preferred a different schedule, he has been given a class that is four hours long. Yes, four straight ... First time...
Dave
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Aug 15, 2007 12:16 am
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I've set up a website called Liuzhou English Corner with teaching materials for Chinese speakers (mostly for high-intermediate and advanced students). Take a...
Dear Dave: By separate email I have sent you an article that will be published in the next issue of English Today. The article summarizes the holistic business...
Many people on this list have contributed, in various ways, to our efforts to develop a Holistic English program for Chinese university students. Some offered...
People have been asked to distribute this information about a free online conference. I imagine it will be accessible in China, but of course I can't be 100%...
... has approved the course for the next academic year. Thanks Martin, nice to know it happened as planned and was successful :-) Dave...
Dave
nevin@...
Aug 17, 2007 4:57 pm
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and I have tried to relate these matters I oft speak on to Chinese nationalism and to Chinese history and culture by referring to what I have called the...
Graham wrote, in speaking of the Rosetta Stone Language Learning 2007 system said : "the whole system is based on the natural way we learn our native...
Part two then: Often I express, these, my ideas about how it is that I think we should be teaching English as a ˇ°delivery of productˇ±, not as aimed at...
... Martin ... perhaps its jet lag returning from China's Silk Road, but I have no idea what a "holistic" business English class would be. Will you enlighten...
For one to teach International English there has to be an international English to teach. I don't speak International English and I don't know anyone who does....
One point that proponents of International English make is that it should be culture free. I'm not sure how a language can be culture free. Take forms of...
Dick just raised many of the necessary questions one would have to address before granting real language status to any particular definition of International...
This one semester course is designed by Niu Qiang, PhD, Martin Wolff, J.D. and Teng Hai, MBA (cn) utilizing a holistic approach to language acquisition through...
Dick and TEFL China teachers, I really enjoyed your words. Have you read Orwell's essays about how English is changing? I wanted to tell you the end of my...
Mary Ann Davis
impossibilitiesexist@...
Aug 19, 2007 1:02 pm
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Here at yahoo groups I am one of those who regularly stretches the quidelines in terms of post lenght. In any case, I wish to note that my last few posts have...
... For it to be viewed it has to exist. Languages and dialects exist through speech communities. The language of these speech communities belongs to the...
Hi, a while back someone wanted things to do in computer class. try these :-) Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Having been...
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