Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 18th, 2008, 08:52 pm
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Views: 10,554 Re: Would you apologize to your students?
Yeah, I just got into one of those embarrassments last evening with my adult students. This time it was with the verb 'to ski.'
First I thought it had two 'i' s but was corrected. It has just one...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 12th, 2008, 08:47 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 9th, 2008, 07:59 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 24th, 2008, 11:10 pm
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Views: 10,554 Re: Would you apologize to your students?
Even that Eric, think of some of the forms native speakers employ when speaking. "We was..." "He don't...." etc.
Should forms like these be accepted for the simple fact that Native English speakers...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 7th, 2008, 10:04 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 6th, 2008, 09:42 pm
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Views: 10,554 Re: Would you apologize to your students?
I totally agree Patrick and I wish the students and the society in general could understand that.
Parents, students and everyone else still consider the teacher to be a kind of perfect person. A...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 3rd, 2008, 03:29 pm
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Views: 10,554 Would you apologize to your students?
It's one the greatest obstacles i have found in the teaching profession; apologizing to students after realizing a mistake made in previous lessons.
Some experts call it intellectual honesty!
How...
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