Hi everybody. Recently, I posted the message below. In the interests of fair play, I would like to point out that this is a message from David Hogg which I ...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Oct 1, 2005 10:23 am
For Luke Meddings, Hi Luke, I read and enjoyed your article. I can remember such days only too well. However, I have moved on a little now and currntly teach...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 6, 2005 3:38 am
My students and I have really enjoyed the following: 1. I told a story from my childhood. 2. The students went home to write a story from their own childhoods....
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 6, 2005 5:41 am
Rob, I know what allophones are - variations on phonemes which, although different, can still be accepted as variation on the the central phoneme and not a...
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Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
Oct 6, 2005 7:00 am
... affects how well he can >reproduce them. If memory serves, he used a rather technical term for this. Allophonic something >or other...? Not sure, so if ...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 6, 2005 7:27 am
PCA - phonemic coding ability My wife tells an anecdote about Viktor, a Russian pupil of hers, who was learning German. She was trying to get him to produce...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 7, 2005 9:42 pm
... like, "Teaching beginners means that > we have to be very careful about in which order we introduce language." At the moment, it is only a question ... And...
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midill@...
rhdill
Oct 7, 2005 10:34 pm
In a message dated 10/7/2005 5:42:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, adrian.tennant@... writes: Mistakenly these same people appear to confuse easy to teach...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 8, 2005 6:05 am
Hi Diarmuid, ... I've had the same problem from management when we've had inspections, and to be frank it's a load of tosh. What I've done on both occassions...
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Helen West
helenwest1
Oct 8, 2005 9:41 am
Can anyone tell me just why the third person 's' is such a problem for learners? When compared with all the different verb endings in other languages (Spanish...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Oct 8, 2005 10:00 am
Is it not because that it is redundant? Learners know that if they say 'he work at the town hall' they will be understood so they really do not need to say...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 8, 2005 10:33 am
Yes Russ, part of the reason is that it's redundant, but I also think that it has to do with the natural order of acquisition (sorry, Scott). Watching kids...
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Mary-Jane Smyth
maryjane_smyth
Oct 8, 2005 10:40 am
Hi Dogme Hi Helen: I'm an inexperienced teacher too, but I've been teaching for three years and this is what I've come up with.... Firstly, in English, you...
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Brian Perkins
perkinsfam
Oct 8, 2005 2:45 pm
... I remember from my "Normal Language Acquisition" course (it seems so long ago) that much of the first play that infants do is this very thing. The babbling...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 8, 2005 6:58 pm
a student here who is learning German as well as English says that in German, you HAVE to learn the correct word form in order to mean; she feels English is...
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midill@...
rhdill
Oct 8, 2005 7:38 pm
In a message dated 10/8/2005 10:45:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, perkinsfam@... writes: "Unless you become as a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom...
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elt@...
vonmarrviii
Oct 9, 2005 7:17 am
Am not sure if this is the right answer. Russ, if I understood you correctly, they have this mental button of 'superduper English', which they press at will......
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Jean-Marc Blancherie
jmblancherie
Oct 9, 2005 7:20 am
I am interested about reflexions you can have about our new online technology : Alexandria, a unique online multilingual dictionary.Alexandria is a dictionary...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 9, 2005 7:55 am
Shimi wrote, ... is where does the omission of 's' come from. Is it another form of interference? Mmmm. I don't think so, otherwise why would children...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 9, 2005 8:14 am
I've always thiought the /s/ /z/ gets dropped by people who speak it, including native English speakers, because, from an information point of view, its...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Oct 9, 2005 9:08 am
I don't think learners have a mental picture of 'super duper English. What I do think they is a very strong value of self. I think they start off learning...
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Brian Perkins
perkinsfam
Oct 9, 2005 2:13 pm
... In the U.S. it is generally the low-income dialects, those who speak African-American English, or (obviously) those learning English as a subsequent...
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guitar7ch
Oct 9, 2005 9:02 pm
I stumbled upon two words which are a challenge to clarify because they are difficult to differentiate. (If you know of any others you'd like to share, please...
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Fiona
fiotf
Oct 9, 2005 9:26 pm
The 's' thing: I would think it's just a case of simplifying rules, a 'default setting', that overgeneralisation that occurs with the -ed endings (putted,...
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Brian Perkins
perkinsfam
Oct 9, 2005 11:59 pm
... I don't know what the popular lexicographers are saying, but to me 'mistrust' is the nominative form whereas 'distrust' is the transitive verb....
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 10, 2005 5:05 am
Google "define" says: Definitions of distrust on the Web: * misgiving: doubt about someone's honesty * the trait of not trusting others * regard as...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 10, 2005 6:53 am
I've checked in the BBC Enmglish Dictionary, Cambridge, Collins Cobuild English Language Dilctionary, Longmsan synonyms..There are no entries in Cobuilds...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 10, 2005 7:25 am
... though, self- image and integration and stuff come into play, whether you make the conscious error to iron those things out or not." Just this morning,...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Oct 10, 2005 7:55 am
Diarmuid writes: "Just this morning, short of anything else to read at breakfast, I picked up Ellis' "2nd Language Acquisition" and started reading.." Discuss ...
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Steve Walters
stevecwa
Oct 10, 2005 8:20 am
Third person s?. Move to Norwich, or at least get your students to claim that they come from here. They don't use it round here. I go, you go, he go.......
