My own guess is that learning all the colours at once causes confusion between similar concepts. If you are learning cooking implements why learn frying pan...
brendan oflaherty
oflahertyb@...
Nov 1, 2007 7:52 am
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The things that inspire us So, yesterday I was walking across campus toward my afternoon class … one of the (Chinese) Intensive English teachers was walking...
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TEFLChina@yahoogroups...
Nov 1, 2007 9:35 am
12780
My last post got completely mangled by the gremlins, so below is a re-post. ... We're a group of language teachers, and no doubt current/previous language...
brendan oflaherty
oflahertyb@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:25 pm
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I've been given a book for Oral for non-english majors uni students. New Era Interactive English allegedly by three western authors, published by Pearson 2003....
Dave
nevin@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:26 pm
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... Yes, I too found it so depressing to have what I had taught wrecked by the following teachers. It is the reason why I now use my summers to train teachers....
Ria Smit
tryria@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:26 pm
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As Dick Hibberts mentioned, Paul Nation's work has been very influential, especially in terms of academic English vocabulary. The Academic Word List developed...
... It's probably a reprint done in China, so some typos may have crept in, but ... Here's a link to a paper about transplantation for tuberculosis patients: ...
... Here's my experience. When I learned French at school I learned vocabulary lists, mainly by translation. When I went to France I found that the way I had...
When I taught vocabulary to second and third grade students at the Ningbo Wanli International Primary School, I always taught words "in context." For example,...
... So far, I've never been in a language lab. ... I draw that on the board 1st lesson. I know they listen to each other cos they ask questions in News Item....
Dave
nevin@...
Nov 2, 2007 5:26 pm
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Does the "transplantation" form part of a list for matching? Presumably the only treatment for certain systemic failures (kidney failure; heart valve failure...
Brendan O'Flaherty and Dick Tibbetts were discussing what vocabulary to teach. Now I belong to the group which believes that these are decisions that are best...
I believe that this story began years ago with Crazy English. Chinese students were taught to seek out foreigners, go up to them, and shout "Hello" in their...
Every time I hear a Chinese student say that they must "master" English I cringe. Who is telling them this? Why? I am a native English speaker and I am 60 this...
... My research has shown that a lexically-based foreign-language curriculum, if student-directed, increases student motivation. It is especially effective...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Nov 3, 2007 9:11 am
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Thanks Dick for relating your vocab learning experiences. Learning words off lists per se is not particularly useful, but putting those words into context is....
brendan oflaherty
oflahertyb@...
Nov 3, 2007 9:12 am
12794
All very well in an ideal world Mert but what about when the students are going to have to sit exams that have vocabulary requirements? That's the situation ...
For those interested, Stephen Krashen has an article in the new IJFLT magazine for Fall 2007 entitled "Extensive Reading in English as Foreign Language by...
... Can you supply the evidence of your own research Nelson? Thanks. Are you saying that if it is not 'student-directed' it won't be motivating or effective...
... First, many learners do not know their plans for the future and have a life style that has no current need for English. Second, if you present the material...
Russ Taylor asked how students who acquire their vocabulary through immersion will do on exams that have specific vocabulary requirements. I'm no great fan of...
As an interested observer of exchanges on TEFLChina, I've perused some 24 responses to the post, below, in which Margaret Rafferty inquired about the...
Kenneth Wilson
kennmeade@...
Nov 4, 2007 12:56 am
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... No I didn't Mert, I asked the opposite. I asked how students who have to take and pass required exams, and therefore are subject to specific vocabulary...
Is anyone else having a hard time opening the IJFLT site? I searched in Google to get the website address, and it does not connect. Shelly Page ... For those...
Page, Shelly
spage@...
Nov 4, 2007 11:12 pm
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... In a perfect world a person trying to deal with learing vocabulary in a new language would build his concept pods in a separate room from where he/she ...
Russ Taylor agrees that scaling is preferable to testing for language but argues that scaling is unfamiliar to the Chinese educational hierarchy. All the more...
... It may be classified, but my students' Teacher Evaluations in student-directed classrooms, vs. teacher-directed (or textbook-based) classes I've conducted,...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Nov 4, 2007 11:15 pm
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... try this alternative: http://www.tprstories.com/ijflt you have to provide name, email address and country and then you'll have free access and can save the...
This is a direct link: http://www.tprstories.com/ijflt/index-fall07.htm?CFID=2638078&CFTOKEN=61584908 if it doesn't work, this should take you to the portal...
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