... I have failed student at College level, simply because they could not speak two sentences together. What was the result? Next semester I had to give them...
Ria Smit
tryria@...
Dec 1, 2004 11:31 am
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MODERATOR NOTE: This started out as a "what do I tell my students" thread, and is starting to get into more employment/life ideas rather than pedagogy. I'd...
The TOEFL folks have an interesting research article (which I found thanks to a poster on another list) available as a free .pdf file on their website (99...
Hi All, Thank You for being here! list rules ... 1. *Friendliness first* - this is a public list, avoid attacking anyone - emails sting so easily. be kindly...
TEFLChina@yahoogroups...
Dec 1, 2004 11:07 pm
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Hi Everyone! Interactive Crossword Puzzles is a new, challenging educational game that I just added to my website: Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun ...
This morning, in the morning self-reading class, Luo Qingze was reading a comic pocket book when I stepped beside him. He was not aware of my coming. I snapped...
zhouzhengli
zhouzhengli1@...
Dec 2, 2004 12:01 pm
7603
This is more or less what I am doing. I tell them how I will mark the exam out of 25 points, tell them they get 75 points for turning up. Whatever their score...
Stephen A Jenkins
stephenajenkins@...
Dec 2, 2004 12:02 pm
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It is against our teachers conscience to cheat parents. Last month, our school gave the midterm tests to the students. But the maths problems of Senior One...
zhouzhengli
zhouzhengli1@...
Dec 2, 2004 12:05 pm
7605
Frankly speaking, if it is in English, I don't care what they read. ... Regards, Jim Bishop Associate Professor James Bishop Baoding Teachers College Baoding,...
Aha! Well, I happen to teach 7:45 am classes that come with red eyes and yawns. My kids have learnt not to disappoint me because I have pre-defined the...
"So the students' scores were changed with each adding 30 more. So the school report of each student looked good. So why give students a test? Why not give...
"I'd like to know what you would do if a student sleeps..." If the student is sleeping I would wake up the teacher. I have a couple articles related to this on...
Your process sounds very reasonable. Students given the ground rules should expect that when they are broken there are consquences. It is also important to...
... From: "zhouzhengli" <zhouzhengli1@...> I sometimes find a student or two sleeping in my middle school classes, especially after lunch. A quick "good...
Keith
keith_64@...
Dec 3, 2004 12:02 pm
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MODERATOR NOTE: Questions about individual sentences or specific vocabulary items often bring on lots and lots of messages that don't add much to the...
zhouzhengli
zhouzhengli1@...
Dec 3, 2004 12:13 pm
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... to get the car started. ... UK English, both OK. Slightly different aspects to the problem but general meaning the same. Dick Tibbetts Macau...
MODERATOR NOTE: This is the second response to this question. As I mentioned, this will be the last one I put through that doesn't go on to expand the issue...
Ben Wong
bwsy88@...
Dec 3, 2004 1:55 pm
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I tried the photo taking a couple of weeks ago. Going around the class taking pictures of the sleepers and those doing homework and reading comic books. They...
Stephen A Jenkins
stephenajenkins@...
Dec 4, 2004 12:56 pm
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I think I have read the correct message that you wanted to put over. If the test was too difficult, then adding to each student's score is just as bad as...
Stephen A Jenkins
stephenajenkins@...
Dec 4, 2004 12:58 pm
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As I said before, these things happen. If you don't want them to happen then make them impossible to happen. Lax rules and procedures tempt people to cheat....
We have discussed the globalization of English. Frankly, I don't see any problem with an Asian English that would suit the needs of Asians to communicate with...
I have noted a certain linguistic peculiarity in Singaporean, Indian, Malay, Pakistani, Russian and South African Englishes. Similarly, articles by Guardian,...
As I am in my last few weeks of doing this job, I am feeling a little dangerous. I have decided to show the kids a DVD or three so they are not so bored, and...
Stephen A Jenkins
stephenajenkins@...
Dec 6, 2004 12:15 am
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Steve The stories you provide about your current class or classes certainly sound frustrating, but after seeing the different words yet same problem for...
... Reply: I quite agree. If all the world's cultures striving to become fluent in English were to achieve same with NES precision; then what a boring world we...
We have watched "The Simpson's - Treehouse of Horrors" for Halloween, "Finding Nemo" to show differences in dialects (ie. American, English, Australian, and...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Dec 6, 2004 3:45 am
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The school where I'm working locates in a poor area in Guizhou. But the principle insisted on installing a monitoring system which can be used to supervise...
zhouzhengli
zhouzhengli1@...
Dec 6, 2004 3:51 am
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I think you are at a private school but this is what I've seen at at several middle schools. Monotoring equipment is pretty much standard for the schools that...
... mission control at Houston. There are banks of computers and TV screens on which are all the classrooms, including mine. I knew there was a camera in the...
There will only be a few more responses from me on this list, as I am getting out of this in the near future. John's message I found to be most profound. ...
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