GENERAL RULES for the TEFLChina Lists ... 1. Be friendly and courteous towards all others. If anyone's post feels unfriendly email me privately at...
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Mar 1, 2009 10:44 am
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I tutor a Korean businessman who lives in Pusan and works for Volvo of Korea. He finds working towards pronunciation that is close to one of the major...
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/ This is a nice website. My website (natlunla.net) is not finished yet. All it has are some self-aggrandizing...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Mar 2, 2009 2:51 am
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I know that the primary high-stakes test focus for students is the Chinese national tests, but I am interested in the number of students who take the TOEFL iBT...
... There's a list with links at http://wikitravel.org/en/Teaching_English#Jargon ... Primarily university admission, but they can also affect...
Sandy Harris
sandyinchina@...
Mar 2, 2009 11:19 am
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Can anyone point me toward an easy-to-use online concordance? And a related question, does anyone know of a Business English concordance that is available...
My two favorite online concordancers: - Mark Davies' Brigham Young University website, which has a concordancer which can search the BNC and the Corpus of...
... Concordance to what? Or did you mean corpus? The best free ones are BNC and COCA, with good portals through BYU. Here's an introductory page to those two...
Hi Terence, Can't point you directly towards a Business English Concordancer, but here are a few related suggestions: Very usable corpus-based materials on...
Hi Terence You can access the British National Corpus at: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ Best Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer ...
Nik Peachey
nik.peachey@...
Mar 6, 2009 12:08 pm
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Take a look at: Sketch Engine It's not free but you can have 30 day free trial account. http://sketchengine.co.uk ...
Nik, You seem to be very involved with the British National Corpus (BNC). One of the limitations for me is that it stops at 1993, so that the ability to...
Dear Karen, The joy of a corpus that "has died" is that it gives you an unrivalled historical view of where a variety of English was at in the period leading...
Mario Rinvolucri
mario.rinvolucri@...
Mar 7, 2009 10:15 pm
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Hi Karen No conection with BNC I'm afraid, it's just something that I have been using over a long period of years and have found to be consitent. I did n't...
Nik Peachey
nik.peachey@...
Mar 7, 2009 10:16 pm
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I am posting this on behalf of a fellow teacher working to get her MA. I think her survey looks at an interesting topic, so I hope that anyone who has the...
Is it correct to say, "my sister plays piano"? The Chinese teachers say they use the article with musical instruments but not with sports (He plays soccer). I...
Margaret Curtis
margaret.curtis@...
Mar 11, 2009 12:39 pm
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>Is it correct to say, "my sister plays piano"? It's a good mnemonic to say "The article goes with musical instruments, but not with sports." Just...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Mar 11, 2009 2:04 pm
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Figuring that "play piano" and "play the piano" would be reasonably representative, I searched both the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), 385+...
I tried to respond and the survey malfunctioned on my computer. After responding to the first page the computer couldn't open the second page and then after...
John reported some problems with the survey. I don't know if this could have been the case with John, but some of the items HAD to be completed in order to...
Hi all, Just a periodic reminder to all members of the TEFLChina lists that the TEFLChinaLife-Unmoderated list is still rolling along. The list exists to...
Thanks for checking on that issue, Karen. So I was correct - around 25% of the time "playing" without the article is acceptable when musical instruments are...
Margaret Curtis
margaret.curtis@...
Mar 12, 2009 12:56 pm
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... This is a sound pedagogical technique - to teach as if the material was authoritative and exhaustive. When students learn this material, they are...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Mar 12, 2009 1:23 pm
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... What I have learned to say to students is that I am going to teach them some *basic* patterns/rules/ways to express something that they can use to function...
I am sure most, if not all of us, have heard of "The Gregg Reference Manual?" How about "Strunk and White: Elements of Style?" Of course these are only two of...
professor mikulski
professormikulski@...
Mar 12, 2009 1:40 pm
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... ...I am going to teach them some *basic* patterns/rules/ ways to express something that they can use to function better in the language. I tell them that...
... Is it a result *only* of teaching to the test, or is it possible that another factor is that visible leaps forward are much more possible at the very...
... to teach something 'as if the material was >authoritative and exhaustive' It's not so much how the practice itself works, but how it is received. Let's...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Mar 13, 2009 2:47 am
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Of course the rules get broken when certain groups of people start talking in a language set that many will accept, ie. eubonics. </jerry> i'd say changes in...
"My brother plays the guitar." sounds better to me than "My brother plays guitar." but "My brother plays the guitar in a band." sounds wrong with the article....
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