Hi all, Thanks for the warm welcome. Have been busy with work and can't really write a proper response. Nonetheless, have been thinking about the various...
Dear Cindy and All Web 2 technology allows/encourages the use of handheld devices, which is supposed to promote oral practice, social experience, etc., cf....
... TEGUH: Well, adults are usually hectic with their own business, and it is worthwhile if they spare some minutes listening to correct pronunciation in the...
Dear Cindy, Emma, Teguh, and all, "Web-based" doesn't have to be mindless pre-programmed exercises. A creative teacher can use a framework like Blackboard, or...
Hi Everyone, This topic caught my attention as I regularly use this approach in ELT. For context, I teach in a rural secondary school where the students...
Dear Gloria Your points, certainly, are well-taken. Web 2 technology has great promise. Let's continue gaining access t what can be offered on the internet...
Hi Rodney and all What you do is normally what non-native English speakers do? I think it be worthwhile to document the process you go through to find out...
... ================== Dear Rodney and all, I agree with Rodney. In the weaker classes and in lower level classes like elementary school, translation is...
Hi Rodney and Emma, As Rodney said, the context makes a big difference in terms of what kind of approach we use. With small children, especially in a small...
Dear all, I agree with Dr. Gloria that we may minimize L1 translation when we are teaching children the L2 or the target language. I have observed the success...
Dear Gloria and All, I remember that as a young elementary school teacher in a semi-urban school in the Philippines, we were not encouraged to use translation...
Dear Emma and others, No, I never used Ilonggo (the local "dialect") in the classroom when I was teaching in an elementary school in the Philippines between...
Dear all, I agree with Dr. Gloria - the judicious translation is crucial for teaching English to adult learners. I sometimes let my second year students at the...
At first I got upset with what Gloria said about lectureRs (not lectures) as part of her experience. Yet, when two of my Year 12 students in Bandung city...
Dear Teguh and all, I think the people who are super-anti-translation are thinking of something like Krashen's example of a bad language lesson in a film on...
I do share the same feeling on this.teaching A foreign language would no doubt require you to do a lot of translation but my former lecturer when i was doing...
Dear Gloria and All I remember, too, techniques like thhe Total Phsical approach, the natural approach, the direct approach, suggestopedia, the silent way...
Dear All P.S. about the techniques I mentioned earlier. The videos I saw had adult second language learners from China, Japan, the middle east, Italians,...
Dear Ema, Gloria, and all, I remember when one of my students who had been a teacher at a junior high school told me how difficult for him to explain to his...
Dear Anas and All I guess when all else fail, there's room for 'judicious' translation. It's just that it is not wished for students to be too dependent on...
Dear Emma and all, Yes, I think those techniques work with older learners - especially if they are living in an English-speaking country and if the students in...
Dear Gloria and All I supose the motivation to learn/pick up English, even just in the TESL/TEFL classroom with students with mix backgrounds, will be kept...
Dear Virtual Forum Members, Please do NOT use this group for messages such as the one below. This group is intended for discussion of the selected discussion...
Dear Gloria Thanks for your "warning" about others wanting to use the vflt website other than for our discussion. http://www.get.live.com/wl/all [Non-text...
Dr. Gloria, I do agree with you that this yahoo group should remain as a professional discussion group. I do hope we all can comply with it. Thank you for the...
Dear Emma and everyone, If we want to contact others in the group about non-Virtual Forum matters, I think it is possible for all of us to go to the website...
Hi, Effendee, Wie geht's in Deutschland? Do let us know if you've learned anything there that might be relevant to us over here on the other side of the world....
