Maybe I was talking in my sleep (what OUGHT to be language turns out NAUGHT...yet I understand myself so well when I talk in my sleep....) I notice that I got...
For a laugh, take a look at http://homepage.mac.com/fmortes/gameover/PhotoAlbum6.html Those of you who are having a hard time sympathising with the struggling ...
Dr. E. writes: "there's still no proof that the way they /adults/ THINK they should learn works! in fact I'd go as far as to say there's proof it doesn't!" ...
Just for the record, I'd say something like 'nooot' with a very open, long /o/ (between English and American, I guess), and something like o-it with open /o/...
Just curiosity, but have Wall Street Inst. folded completely, or did they just take the overnight disappearing act option here in Tenerife? Leaving a lot of...
Hi, Fiona! My info says it depends on each individual centre, i.e. some franchisees simply have shut the shop down and probably now looking into Zara or ...
Just a (long-ish) footnote to dk's musings on how best to raise consciousness about will and going to. There's a paper by Bardovi- Harlig in the latest issue...
In other words, do you have the wherewithal to create a socio-pragmatic situation at hand (as you do in what the Yanks like to call ESL) or do you have to make...
Rob: Europeans say "Yank" to talk about Americans--including southerners. Southerners use it to talk about all northerners, northerners use it to talk about...
So, in answer to your question, the word "Yank" is not locally derogatory when I say "what the Yanks call ESL". Isn't this a global e-group, ie people from all...
Rob: Yes, subjectivity--or rather inter-subjectivity--is the key issue here, as in much of dogme. Scot talked about how "derogatory" words are appropriated by...
dk writes, inter a great deal of ingenuous alia: "Actually, ESL/EFL is not a very deep distinction at all." I don't agree at all, and, more importantly, nor do...
lifand67: The question you really need to ask is whether the distinction made in that sentence is a derogatory one or not. romiha1: Question: Is "Yank" a...
... I object to the preposition as being an example of hidden anti-dogme thought rising to the surface. Someone must have tongue in cheek, not sure if it is...
... My little boy seems to have picked up "gunna" very quickly, in the context of prediction, as in your clouds example. On reflection, I often ask him "are...
... I looked up the word 'Yank' in 3 of my dictionaries and none of them said it was derogatory. In fact, the meaning was clearly uniform - as in 'pull'. The...
When I was at primary school in the 40s, "Yank" was certainly derogatory, as in: Old father Hubbard, When to the cupboard To get his poor dog a bone But when...
I've been thinking about the study Scott referred to by Bardovi-Harlig. Couldn't you sum of the gist of what is apparently said as: " Expose learners to as...
... Harlig. ... Yes, absolutely, but with the proviso that the authentic language to which they're exposed should be located in its typical contexts of use....
Tom asked about some kind of end-all reflctive testing. I just finished teaching a 3rd quarter Spanish class, and the students' final exam was: Write an...
I'm writing stuff for my next class on Elementary English Education, and I have to teach my kids to teach their kids the sentence "What's this?" My first...
dk asks me: "Dennis: I'm not sure what you mean by "ingenous". If you mean "ingenious" I accept the compliment. If you mean "disingenous", you should say so...
Scott agreed that a sensible aim is to expose learners to as much authentic language as possible " with the proviso that the authentic language to which...
Conversational input Scott recently recommended repeated use of "I think it's going to rain", when looking out of the window on a cloudy day, as a way for a...
Richard writes: "I accept that there must be some cause/effect chain between exposure and learning. But in my experience the relationship is very indirect." ...
... Funny you mention it, I find that after a beer or two with students (at end of course or what have you), the "onamatopeia game" usually fills some time ...
Richard Samson writes: "But none of the students at any level "picked up the expression". If I waited for them to suggest a break instead of me, none of them...
Richard's example is interesting. perhaps the students were just too enamoured with the meaning - or the meaning was just TOO obvious - so the form got...
... there's an interesting article in July's ELTJ which sort of relates both to this question, and indirectly to dk's idea about classroom corpuses ("Two...
... Useful? I'm not sure. If you take the weather forecast in Britain 'going to' is not used that often (although it is more frequent than the textbook 'will'...
