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Jun 1, 2009 8:13 am
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Hi, I have a class with 35 students (teenagers) from different skills level (upper-beginner, intermediate, upper-intermediate). Any ideas how to manage the...
konggrich chansamphan
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Jun 1, 2009 12:23 pm
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... I have a class of Senior 2s, some of whom making progress, around IELTS 6. I'm feeding them selected pages from a lttle book, Test your Pronunciation....
Dave
nevin@...
Jun 1, 2009 12:25 pm
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... Apparently it's been an elective in Hong Kong for a few years and will be compulsory from September. They call it Liberal Studies and some teachers are...
Dave
nevin@...
Jun 1, 2009 12:25 pm
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Kevin, I use this method. Find the good ones and make them the leaders of your small groups. Then do all your work in small groups aimed mainly at the middle...
Ria Smit
tryria@...
Jun 2, 2009 12:27 pm
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... Bettie wrote the above. It is not true. I am in southern China now, and many of my students have the r-l problem. It comes from their dialect. However,...
... That's the official IELTS site, from the people who run the system. There's a lot of good info both at that URL and elsewhere on the site, including a...
Sandy Harris
sandyinchina@...
Jun 2, 2009 12:30 pm
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Nancy wrote about the folks near Xi'an who add 'uh' at the end of words. But we have NS, the Canadians, who add 'Ay' at the end of words. That's why...
... Kevin Only 35 students should be a breeze even though different levels if you are teaching spoken English. If literature, writing, research techniques,...
If the free materials you can find for the IELTS aren't enough, there is a reputable subscription website that has relatively low-cost materials for a variety...
... But we have NS, the Canadians, who add 'Ay' at the end of words. That's why they call their country CANADA: C, ay, N, ay, D, ay.> Mert - Dr.M.L.Bland Oa...
... Hi,Nancy, Students in Guangxi have problems with the sounds k,g,p,t, d if they are of the Zhuang ethnic group.I have students from Sichuan who have the 'l'...
... Dr. Bland is joking, of course. However, I think it's important to note that the Canadian 'ay'¯ is a speech habit, akin to saying 'you know'¯ at the end...
How long does it take a student to decide if you are a good teacher or a poor teacher? And I mean, to come to a solid conclusion about you that at the end of...
... when >"r" and "l" are together like "pearl." I used to live on Ren Min Lu. Kids had a problem the first time they read about the Polymouth Fathers who...
Dave
nevin@...
Jun 3, 2009 10:10 pm
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... I'm confused. Nancy was talking about adding Uh to the end of words while Mert seems to be looking at a change in vowel to a dipthong, plus a change in...
... Nancy ... Dick I was even more confused when Bettie told me Chinese didn't have this problem because my Cantonese students often did and so did quite a few...
... pronunciation of these consonants has to be learned by practice and repetition.> Jim Mahler ... The exception to the above is the 'er' sound at the end of...
Ria Smit
tryria@...
Jun 4, 2009 2:23 am
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Not all Chinese students have problems with the /r/ sound although some do. Chinese students from the Mongolian minority who speak Mongolian do not have any...
... Sounds like the tag questions Brits and Americans use - a device to seek agreement. The Cantonese Ah, law, gah etc. are a bit like this - they add meaning...
... pronunciation of these consonants... ... I think that the 'er' sound probably isn't the type of consonant Jim meant by a "hard consonant" with a...
See www.english.peopledaily.com.cn China People's Daily in English has added the voice of a woman reading the news in English. I think this might be ...
It is often quite difficult to judge people's fluency. It goes up and down according to the task given the learner. I was listening to backchat yesterday, a...
... I'm all in favour of integrated courses but you are doing a lot of listening and reading before you use this as a stimulus for writing. Firstly, do the...
... What about the /v/ vs /w/ problem. I have been /wikki/ most of my time in China and every time we do Oral Presentations they have problems with "juvenile",...
... I finished my final exams on Monday, so I won't have a chance to survey a large number of students until school starts again in the fall. But I've had a...
While four people is not enough to draw a clear conclusion, it appears that Cantonese is not the culprit. ... It could be that it's southern Cantonese and...
I'm mentoring a Chinese teacher from Dalian who also has the R/L problem ... in addition to dropping final consonants. She is preparing to teach Chinese in the...
Glenys Wignes
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Jun 6, 2009 7:12 pm
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... What are some of the techniques you use for the R/L problem? For the final-consonant dropping? Nelson Bank...
One very effective strategy for helping learners produce R when they are producing L is to tell them to move their tongue further back. I usually show this by...
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