I wonder to post here a question or not.In fact I am interested in collecting some useful sites for teaching an intensive English training course to military...
Hi Jordana I don't know which part of the military you are working with, or with which countries, or what levels within the forces, but national sites like...
Dear TTEdSIG members, posting to this list is not heavy. Nevertheless, do follow normal rules of netiquette and do NOT include the whole text text of the...
Hello, My experience is that the first problem of military techicians is in understanding technical manuals and instruction given in English of various...
Hi Jordana The British Council has a site called military English which is designed to support the Peace Keeping English project. Give it a try, there's a lot...
Nik Peachey
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Sep 13, 2004 8:14 am
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Hello colleagues, I have just been given the opportunity to develop an MA-level course in Literature in Language Teaching here in Hanoi. Literature courses...
Brad Baurain
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Sep 14, 2004 9:22 am
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Brad asks: "(1) What do you think are legitimate and beneficial purposes for literature in language learning and teaching? (2) What resources do you...
Hi Brad, I don't know how "off the beaten track" it is, but Gillian Lazar's book Literature and Language Teaching has lots of tasks you can do with teachers....
Brad, I'd also recommend Alan Pulverness (based at NILE, Norwich Institute for Language Education) as a potential source of inspiration. Ashamedly I know...
Dear Brad Here is another, not far off the beaten path, book on the subject: Duff & Mailey's Literature in the Oxford "Resource Books for Teachers" series...
For literature in LT you might try out this newly launched site http://newwriting.britishcouncil.org/ This might be of interest too. ...
Nik Peachey
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Sep 15, 2004 8:16 am
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Dear Brad, There is an IATEFL Literature, Media and Cultural Studies Special Interest Group - I am the coordinator of the SIG. You can access our webpages...
There are very good books by Widdowson (Practical Stylistics) and Mick Short (I have not got the title on me but there was an excellent one published in about...
Patrick Andrews
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Sep 15, 2004 1:57 pm
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Literature in LT course I think a very useful resource for students would be Mastering the language of literature by Malcolm Hebron published by Palgrave...
Dear Brad, In addition to the books mentioned (and to Alan Pulverness, who's extremely knowledgeable on the subject!), I'd recommend Joanne Collie & Stephen...
Linda Yael
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Sep 17, 2004 1:10 am
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Dear colleagues, I wrote to you perhaps a week ago looking for help and input in putting together a postgraduate course in Literature in Language Teaching. I ...
Brad Baurain
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Sep 22, 2004 7:28 am
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Dear Brad I would love to see the syllabus if you could send the same. Thanking you Dr. Jitendra Sharma India [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I also read with a lot of interest the advice you were given through this list. I would like to receive the syllabus and reading schedule you devised. Thanks a...
Dear Iordana, In response to your request for military info, I suggest you try and get a copy of 'Loud and Clear', a book written especially for the Italian ...
Jai Hill
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Oct 1, 2004 11:59 am
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Hi All, My apologies - a spammer slipped through the net and managed to register and post a message yesterday. The spammer has been banned and the message...
Dear Fellow-List Members I am doing a small survey about in-service teacher training methods, in order to try to find out more about practices and views in...
Even, You are going to make my military student very happy. I also have been combing the internet for military terms and the material you mentioned looks very...
Really great website here with loads of digital media on most of it created by and about teenagers. Would be ideal for classroom exploitation or as examples if...
Nik Peachey
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Nov 4, 2004 9:47 am
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Apologies for cross posting. Hope you find something useful here. Hello and welcome to the newsletter from teaching English. Here are the details of the latest...
Nik Peachey
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Nov 17, 2004 8:31 pm
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Apologies for cross posting. Hope there is something here you can use. Hello and welcome to the newsletter from teaching English. Just an advance warning that...
Nik Peachey
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Nov 23, 2004 9:07 pm
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Dear All, Those of you who are members of the TTEd SIG will have received our latest Newsletter by now - full of thought-provoking and interesting articles, as...
Dear all Congrats to Lindsay for a meaty newsletter (well, I was bound to say this, wasn't I?), and everybody involved in the production of the CD- ROM...
I have uploaded the Lightbown article to the files section of TTEdSIG. When you double click on the entry, a copy of the file will be downloaded to your PC and...
I am certain that all people of this list know that Scott Thornbury is the author of a number of ELT books, including two award-winning books on grammar,...