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"peterneu" wrote: There IS LEGITIMATE authority in kids' natural groupings. ========================================= And in most uni classes there is a...
Ria Smit claims she has never seen students, or teachers for that matter, read anything other than that which was mandatory. Well, there's mandatory and...
Yes Dr. Mert, you are right. I have purchased a variety of books, magazines and comics and put them in the Holistic English Lab. The lab is open at night for...
M Wolff wrote: I wrote in each Bible that it is ... written in perfect English. ... I think, to avoid confusion on the part of the students, that it would be...
... I've checked a few more modern translations of the Bible and they too, like the King James Bible, have the dramatic use of initial conjunctions in Genesis...
I can't get this website now, though I saw it earlier. What intrigued me was the weighting they put on culture, perhaps because they were thinking more of ESL...
MODERATOR NOTE: I appreciate the effort of the poster below, who is trying his best to keep the focus on teaching. I would like to ask other posters on the...
... I've heard it all now, but regardless of the subject material, I can almost guarantee that in a bilingual book, the English printing will never get worn...
My mainland students, unlike most Macau students, love to write a Chinese translation of any unfamiliar words above the original in the text. I enlarged one...
Dick's experience matches mine and that is why there is no Chinese in the holistic Workbooks. but the students are encouraged to write the Chinese characters...
M Wolff wrote: On a much more controversial note, I also arranged for each and every student, all 800, to receive a free bi-lingual Bible for free choice...
Martin McMorrow, thank you for addressing the pedagogical context of a text such as the holy bible! You voiced many of my own thoughts on the issue without any...
Martin McMorrow's email in which he outlines his reservations to providing free bibles to students for leisure reading was not only spot on, but extremely ...
r.e. Don't Give Up, Socrates Lingua European Union Education Project The 'Don't Give Up' project needs your help to understand why students drop out of...
Katie Kruse wrote: ... I just don't think the bible is a text that can be read and understood out-of-context and in a translated form (however accurate). ... ...
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The book is called Venturing into the Bible by Siu May Kuo published by Nanjing University Press 1989 I get my copy in Beijing from a flea market. It only...
Katie Kruse wrote: ... I just don't think the bible is a text that can be read and understood out-of-context and in a translated form (however accurate). ... ...
To clarify some concerns: We have a list rule that posters should keep only the *very minimum* amount (possibly none at all, or only a few key words) of a...
I am constantly asked, “What is holistic English?” In China, English is taught in 4 separate and disjointed classes, Reading, Listening, Writing and...
... gave the case why you could not really understand English until you knew the English of the Bible. ... But there are plenty of Hindus Moslems and Buddhists...
The bible was written in Hebrew (old testament) and Greek (new testament). Pretty much all modern Christians are reading the bible in translated form, so I...
... Students of English language and particularly English literature will find many expressions and allusions easier to understand if they have a background in...
The Impact of Reading the Bible and Studying the Bible on Biblical Knowledge Robert Filback and Stephen Krashen Knowledge Quest, 31(2): 50-51. 2002 ...
Thanks for the feedback on my last posting on the subject of the ethics of teaching. I'd like to comment on another related posting on bible translation. I...
... My husband taught History of the English Language at our university in Shijiazhuang. But I haven't heard of a foreign teacher doing so since. There were...
Please try to be more careful in spelling my name ... The terms "word-for-word translation" and "thought-for-thought translation" are not my own, but are the...
About the comment that the Bible is being read in a translated form by westerners as well -- I am no dummy and realize that. I don't want to get off the topic...
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