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Nov 1, 2008 10:34 am
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... The back pages of New Headway-advanced have an excellent summary of English grammar, easily explained, with conjucntions or linking devices set out...
Dave
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Nov 2, 2008 5:09 am
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... All Chinese highschool students do homework for other classes in your class. It's traditional. They'd do your homework in Maths, maths h/w in geog, geog...
Dave
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Nov 2, 2008 5:11 am
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Jada, here is one that I have done very successfully with almost every class I have taught. It is more an activity than a game. Aim, to learn compromising...
Ria Smit
tryria@...
Nov 2, 2008 5:11 am
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This ties in with some of Dave Kees' comments. (PhysOrg.com) -- A new learning platform is giving the traditional classroom a radical makeover. Using...
"Gotta get those points. And for those points in English, they need Chinese teacher's grammar :-) and there's only ONE right answer to A,B,C,D." There is a...
The University I now work for had a discussion on this point prior to hiring me this summer. They did a survey and a research paper, I was told, that showed...
I agree, it doesn't seem to be true and I had two students I had taught who were not going to be allowed to take the final CET because they had originally ...
The examples of CET that I have seen tell me that this is a test of an English that is not familiar to NSs. There are grammatical restrictions that we do not...
For those of you who might be interested in attending the Conference on English Language Teaching in Cambodia, see the information below. Karen ... We are now...
Of course the Chinese teachers can teach the test better than native English speaking English teachers. The exam at best tests test taking skills and at worst...
Hi All, Things have been pretty busy in the world of ELT and Educational technology recently, and Iād like to share with you some of my attempts to keep up...
Nik Peachey
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Nov 4, 2008 12:47 pm
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... I was referring to someone's post about high school and gaokao. Uni and CET4/6 is a different kettle of fish,I thought...but after reading today's Digest,...
Dave
nevin@...
Nov 4, 2008 1:32 pm
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IMO the tests are all about grammar. Yes, sometimes 3 answers are right and sometimes 3 answers are wrong, but they know what to write because it's what they...
As I said and as we can see from the replies, it is a sort of "accepted wisdom" that Chinese teachers can teach for the test better than non-Chinese teachers....
Before we knock the testing system or the Chinese teachers here, maybe we should accept that the standard of the foreign teachers here is pretty low. </Robin...
I would suggest that this is afrivolous question. We are making an assumption that all Chinese teachers are Group A, and all foreign teachers bare Group B. ...
Yes Nate, I agree totally. Most of the younger CET teachers here realise the futility of the tests, but still have to work to the system Robin Kilty ... i...
Ah Dave, you missed the part about not learning grammar rules. You think the students are learning a language instead of learning the test. The problem is not...
I agree it is the test and not the teachers. I recently took the basic HSK test, It is a good test and an international standard. It really doesn't matter...
The student likes to hear from the teacher who recently had the exact experience on the test. It gives them confidence that they can get from the foreign...
I readily agree that Chinese teachers tend to do a better job at teaching to the tests. This is great in a society where these stupid tests have become the...
Dear All, Once again I'm asking you to complete a writing task of the type my 12th grade Advanced Writing students must master because it may be included on...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChina/message/14260 This is a superficially attractive idea for some teachers in PR China with large classes: embrace...
While I have read this topic only a little and am not looking to get into the specific nature of the teaching style and benefits. I would like to add a couple...
I know that Jeff Kruse gets a big kick out of all my little ideas so I can't keep this one under wraps any longer even though, like much of BOB, it's still in...
(*TTVS = Technology Tunnel Vision Syndrome) ... Dave, I like the recycling of vocab in context that "BOB" creates. It looks good. However, the issue is not...
I am using a limited amount of technology as a classroom supplement. (1) technology for increasing writing fluency I teach in the US, so most of my students...
all very interesting stuff Dave as usual. When do the students get to use the vocabulary they've come across 8 times or so in their contexts and their own...
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