A new teaching methodology will be presented at a ten-day TESOL workshop in Wuhan January 19 or 20 to January 28 or 29 (end time can be extended for ...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Jan 1, 2003 9:13 am
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hi all, reminder: everyone is welcome to post. Thank You all for being helpful, *friendly* and thank you for being here! list...
teflchina@yahoogroups...
Jan 1, 2003 9:14 am
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Nelson, Can you give us more information on the workshop? Exactly who will do the training? What is the "student directed classroom" approach as we're already ...
dk
davkees@...
Jan 2, 2003 7:07 am
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re: January Teaching Workshop Nelson, good on you for organizing this. Unfortunately, I'm already booked to go back to Australia then, but this is exactly...
Suzanne Rowe
aussiesuzanne@...
Jan 2, 2003 7:08 am
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I am a new subscriber and first became aware of the group as the result of an Google ESL search that resulted in bringing to my attention a book named "88 Ways...
Pepper & Joe
pepper.joe@...
Jan 2, 2003 12:09 pm
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Just a quick question to the group, Im at my usually moment of indecision. I have 2 offers, one for a Liaoning College of Foreign Trade in Dalian and one for a...
... Dave, Student-directed is more like student-initiated material. Students choose words they want to know in English, use a dictionary to look them up in...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Jan 3, 2003 9:31 am
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Hello, this is my first post on any of these lists and I was wondering if you could give me some help. I am 21 and have been teaching in Changde, Hunan for...
Sarah Jackson
sjj17cruise@...
Jan 3, 2003 9:32 am
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Dalian, of course. I think foreign trade colleges are like senior-high/junior college combined, with a mostly female student population. And Beijing is cold,...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Jan 3, 2003 9:33 am
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Suzanne, Where are you teaching in China? I'm teaching at the University of Commerce in Hangzhou, although I'm currently on holiday in Sydney. I belong to a...
Stephen Jobson
stephenoz@...
Jan 3, 2003 9:34 am
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Hello everyone, I'm Zarah and I'm new to this group. I'm interested in knowing the teaching threads in China. Can anyone provide me information? I might be...
Zarah Ching
sargeching@...
Jan 3, 2003 9:34 am
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Speak with the student outside of class. You just never know what is happening in his world and he might need a good ear to listen to his problems. For some,...
john pullen
j_pullen@...
Jan 3, 2003 5:31 pm
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I have just been thru the TEFL archives and would like to know whether scrabble can be purchased in China. I saw Stephanie Noke's messages from a couple of...
Terence Egan
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Jan 3, 2003 7:29 pm
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Hi, Sarah, This is my first time posting here as well. If a student cries in my class, I'll ask the other students sitting around her, or the Class Prefect, to...
Quietly and unobtrusively, give him a tissue and offer him the opportunity to go to the bathroom and calm down. Keep him privately after class and see what...
David Baumel asks whether to teach in Dalian or Beijing. My gut reaction is go to Dalian. Actually I've never been to either Dalian or Beijing, but have heard...
camilla krueger
camillachen@...
Jan 3, 2003 7:31 pm
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I shall be leaving a rather wet London this Tuesday for China and I have already packed and am sending by surface mail two games: one is Cluedo and the other a...
nora sanders
beulah2000@...
Jan 4, 2003 1:17 am
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Hi Sarah, definitely don't ignore it, and, I very much doubt that it was a deliberate attention seeking thing - not in the manner implied by Leslie's reply....
In a message dated 1/3/2003 6:21:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time, ... Reply: How true and well put Betty. Don [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Willboots@...
Jan 4, 2003 5:10 am
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Betty, did you happen to read later on when I said that if it was an emotional issue, dealing with it outside the class was more appropriate? Absolutely, it...
In a message dated 1/3/2003 10:13:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, ... Hi Leslie. I think you are being too hard on yourself. You do come accross as a very...
Willboots@...
Jan 4, 2003 7:11 am
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Sarah, Crying is definitely more common in China, though i haven't seen it among boys as much. Once I had a college girl cry because she considered me a close ...
Leslie - I addressed this to you directly and to the group. I think my home computer may not have access to sending messages to this group. If it doesn't...
john pullen
jpullen@...
Jan 4, 2003 3:16 pm
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Hi Thanks for everyones advice, I think that part of my problem was seeing a boy of his age crying is a rather odd thing for me, also I couldnt check he was...
Sarah Jackson
sjj17cruise@...
Jan 4, 2003 7:10 pm
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I agree with Xiao Leslie--I've had 4th grade girls burst into tears because someone else (who actually did some WORK) got a sticker and they didn't. I've also...
Hope you had a nice New Year's celebration. This exercise is good for listening, developing questions and answers and lots of intense fun. I used it with...
dk
davkees@...
Jan 4, 2003 7:21 pm
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We are just finishing off our first term of teaching & feel fairly satisfied with teaching oral English. We both feel we have a good rapport with our freshman...
Alan Simpson
sningbo@...
Jan 4, 2003 7:23 pm
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... Oh Boy, you bet I'll put my rusty two cents to this thread: (Moderators sorry if my jovial writing is not upto the current TEFLchina trend! I am...
Sarah Jackson wrote:>I was wondering if anyone could suggest any techniques for learning names Make nametags or nameplates for the students - or rather have...
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