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Oct 1, 2008 10:47 am
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... I had not seen this book in China a few years ago but it could possibly be now. Try the FLBS in Shanghai but I really do not know. It is available on...
Mary Ann: You write: " I'd appreciate learning what age-specific (our age) uni teaching methods over-55 teachers in China use -- and how they feel about their...
TOO MANY STUDENT MESSAGES I get a lot of Emails from my students. As I mentioned before, I am seriously spamming my hundreds of students with thousands of...
I've just been reading Letters (Burbidge, Gray, Levy, Rinvolucri) in the resouce Books for Teachers series and it seems to have some rather good ideas. Written...
... And I know native Brits who say 'youzhli', 2 syllables in connected speech, especially when it's not being stressed.Which syllable has the stress in 'use...
Sage publications, who provide articles on scholarly subjects including Linguistics and learning, are having a giveaway of their services thru this October. ...
Nelson Bank
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Oct 2, 2008 5:16 pm
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Usually in the U.S. we say /yuzhwuhli/ (pardon the semi-phonemic transcription). Funny that in Chinese there is the /zh/ sound, except that it is used as a...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Oct 2, 2008 5:17 pm
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... junior-level college students don't want to learn, like Process ... I'm a fan of OWL which someone posted but there's also ...
Dave
nevin@...
Oct 3, 2008 1:57 am
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MODERATOR NOTE: This was originally sent to the JOB list, then got moved by the moderator to TEACH *just* after Mary posted a related message here. Since she...
Tebo Tegwi wants some tips on teaching vocabualry without translation. Well, this is, of course, less of a problem for TESL teachers who deal with a...
Dear Dick and Everybody, I am naturally delighted that the book mentioned below LETTERS, (OUP) has clearly reached one appreciative reader. I am also delighed,...
Mario Rinvolucri
mario.rinvolucri@...
Oct 3, 2008 11:44 am
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Dear Merton, Thanks for the great read! Positive reinforcement has always been a very important part of my class. I feel the class is working well if I...
As many on the list know, I disagree with Mert on concept pods to some extent. I've argued about it before so I'll try not to repeat myself. I don't think that...
Peg asked about spamming my students, "How much time do you estimate it takes to compose and send out a message?" I use an Excel file and a Visual Basic...
Michael Mcnulty seemed to like my thing on why we don't push translation (thank you Michael), but questioned my assertion that true bilinuals have the twio...
Mary Davis asked: I.e., what methods do you use to learn about their world that's quite different from the one we grew up in? I graduated from uni in 1970, and...
Re: Mary Davis and relating to young students older teacher. I am one of those older teachers. You can do many things to find out and relate to your students:...
Peg referred to my experimentation with a tablet computer so I'd like to tell everyone about that. Five years ago I bought an ACER C110 Travelmate 11 inch...
... Well, if you're going low-tech, this is what I do. I have 650 students, so I rarely remember names. I have them assigned to seats (actually blocks of...
I used a variation of the same laminated seating chart technique but with a small twist. I assigned each table a number and each group had to rotate to the...
I get all my students to wear name tags, then it doesn't matter where they sit. Alan Simpson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
hotmail1
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Oct 5, 2008 12:48 pm
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I would not characterize my approach as low-tech because I temporarily keep a bit of information on paper. Due to the fact that I am constantly moving into the...
As China is now a part of the world, then this movie relates to China too. In fact, China plays quite a big part in it. Released October 3rd this is a sequel...
My apologies. I had discussed the message about a movie for LIFE, and since I am moderating both LIFE and TEACH this week, didn't notice when it came back...
Moved from the LIFE list ... Can anyone think of any games I can play in class using scrabble letters. For those who want a full set of letters they can be...
... You can play Boggle. Have students draw sixteen (or twenty-five) random letters and place them in a 4 x 4 (or 5 x 5) square. Give them a reasonable...
... Here are a few games that you can't play with Scrabble letters unless you put several sets together: 1. Word Ladders (as Lewis Carroll called it) or Word...
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