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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Merton Bland
mert_bland
Apr 1, 2011 9:13 pm
Terence Egan is bringing us around to that crucial question, What is English? Is it something set in cement, like, a grammar written out by a bunch of monks...
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roger@...
m2_cn
Apr 1, 2011 9:13 pm
A dictionary is your friend. _till_ predates _until_, which comes from it, by some 300 years. Dictionary.com's usage note says: "Till and until are both old...
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McMorrow, Martin
stgilesteach...
Apr 1, 2011 9:15 pm
I was surprised to read the posting about the relative frequencies of 'till' and 'until'. It doesn't match my perceptions at all. In my informal spoken...
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Kenneth Wilson
kennmeade@...
Apr 3, 2011 12:29 pm
The question posed is When should I use 'til till? When there's a way there should be a will ('mongst those who teach and those who have soil to till) to...
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karen
karenstanleyma
Apr 3, 2011 12:54 pm
Especially for those with limited access to scholarly journals, Routledge is offering free access to its journals for the month of April: ...
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Merton Bland
mert_bland
Apr 4, 2011 6:01 pm
Martin McMorrow wrote an erudite essay on this subject and included references to formal and informal English. This, of course, brings us back to my oft...
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Dave
nevin@...
Apr 4, 2011 6:01 pm
... Teach what you know, which is what your mother taught you, and maybe primary school/elementary. Then add on any/a few common universals like petrol/gas. It...
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Julian Suddaby
julian.suddaby
Apr 5, 2011 12:01 pm
Hello everyone, We've had some interesting discussion about grading recently, and Ken and I were wondering if anyone knew of good resources for examples of ...
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Terence Egan
terence_laoshi
Apr 6, 2011 12:06 pm
The five levels of English or levels of formality in English are commonly cited from Stevens, in English Studies, Vol. 45, No.1:  Frozen:    Visitors...
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Terence
terence_laoshi
Apr 7, 2011 2:02 am
Some more thought-provoking presentations from TEDTalks. 1. The World's English Mania Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to...
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dk
davkees
Apr 7, 2011 2:02 am
Try here: http://goo.gl/XL7nP [Cambridge ESOL Teacher Resources] It would help to know what the project is to be able to direct you to the right resources. ...
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Julian Suddaby
julian.suddaby
Apr 8, 2011 11:30 am
... Thanks for that link -- the videos on that site are very useful for candidates who are going to sit one of the Cambridge exams. It's a shame, though, that...
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Dave
nevin@...
Apr 9, 2011 10:36 am
"To minimise the risk of foul play, the Bundesbank deliberately dismantles damaged coins before their disposal. But the coins were being intercepted by a gang...
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Dave
nevin@...
Apr 9, 2011 10:37 am
... Except he shows Li Yang and maybe one percent ? of those who already speak English go to Li Yang, which leaves a rather large gap in China - those who...
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dk
davkees
Apr 9, 2011 6:16 pm
I think there is very little use in having students listen to IELTS scored interviews. I think it is useful but of little use. It is not the kind of thing that...
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dk
davkees
Apr 9, 2011 6:16 pm
After 11 years of teaching in China, I decided that I didn't know my students and my colleagues well enough. So I started Project 400. I am researching: 100...
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alan
sningbo@...
Apr 11, 2011 11:43 pm
Dave wrote, "I'm almost halfway through Project 400. It's very interesting and I'm learning a lot. I am finding that many assumptions that I've had about...
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Julian Suddaby
julian.suddaby
Apr 11, 2011 11:44 pm
... I think you're absolutely right, Dave, to point out that students might not benefit greatly from listening to other students taking the oral exams. It...
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Nik Peachey
nik.peachey...
Apr 11, 2011 11:45 pm
Dear All I'm following up on my survey into Mobile Learning from last year with a repeat of the same questionnaire. I hope this will give some information...
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Dave
nevin@...
Apr 11, 2011 11:46 pm
... Agreed ! If you can youtube, there's mock interviews there but of quite variable quality. One, purportedly of part 3, was made by a colleague in Hanoi but ...
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dk
davkees
Apr 13, 2011 3:04 pm
Perhaps we could develop our own set of examples for educational purposes. Using the IELTS public band descriptors, we could all take a shot at rating them. It...
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Robert J Dickey
robertjdickey
Apr 14, 2011 7:11 pm
Continuing on Dave Kees' thread: I started the IELTS assessor training. Walked out after three hours because I couldn't "buy in" to the concepts. here's a...
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Merton Bland
mert_bland
Apr 15, 2011 1:44 pm
Robert J Dickey notes his inability to "buy in" to some of the concepts of certain assessment tools, especially, if I understand correctly, those whose...
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Kenneth Wilson
kennmeade@...
Apr 16, 2011 6:46 pm
Hi: But keep in mind that those samples of vocabulary and other items, judiciously put together, as John Carroll noted back in1967, tend to yield information...
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Dave
nevin@...
Apr 16, 2011 6:50 pm
... But maybe if you'd stayed all day, you'd have heard fairly accurately why that recording was a 5, in terms of pron, grammar, lexicon and cohesion. The...
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karen
karenstanleyma
Apr 16, 2011 6:58 pm
A poster stated: " This recording is a 5. We can discuss why it is a 5. Different assessors will have different reasons for scoring it a 5. You can disagree...
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karen
karenstanleyma
Apr 18, 2011 6:36 am
This isn't quite classroom pedagogy, but does consider some interesting perspectives on learning English. ...
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Stefan Penchev
academicabg
Apr 20, 2011 7:49 am
The most important factor for a human being to learn a second language is the similarity or proximity of the foreign language to their first, native mother...
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nate jarvis
natejarv@...
Apr 21, 2011 8:41 am
The most important factor for a human being to learn a second language is the similarity or proximity of the foreign language to their first, native mother...
