Forum: Teaching ESL 
May 20th, 2007, 07:57 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 17th, 2007, 08:03 pm
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Views: 13,052  Re: How long do you expect to stay in TESL?
Call me materialistic, but I'm tired of driving a 15-year old car, and I want to earn some decent $$. Plus I'm having a 'been there, done that' kind of feeling.
I'd like to go more into IT. As it...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 17th, 2007, 08:00 pm
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Views: 3,207 Re: Help
This is due to First Language Influence of their mother tongue on English.
If they have no 'v' or 'y' sound in Spanish, they will use the nearest approximation. Because we learn sounds even before...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 16th, 2007, 07:47 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 14th, 2007, 07:54 pm
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Views: 3,859 Re: Diversity in English
That's the point I want to pick up on. Because of technology and other factors, such as ease of travel, there will come a time when we interact more with people outside of our (physical) community...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 10th, 2007, 07:42 pm
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Views: 3,859 Re: Diversity in English
But I wonder if there are less variations than, say, 100 years ago? I dug this up after a quick google search:
Ethnic Miao tongue in danger of dying out in south...
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Forum: English Questions
May 10th, 2007, 07:37 pm
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Views: 3,929 Re: Scapegoats
Thanks Susan. That's a weird painting, but more interesting when you know the story behind it.
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Forum: English Questions
May 9th, 2007, 07:37 pm
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Views: 3,929 Re: Scapegoats
Hey thanks Clive, that's interesting.
Also, it's interesting that they had the notion in those days of 'transferring sins' to others, which of course cropped up again in the New Testament!
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Forum: English Questions
May 9th, 2007, 12:53 am
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Views: 3,929 Scapegoats
How did the word 'scapegoat' come about? Anyone know?
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2007, 07:50 pm
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Views: 4,232 Re: Native Speaker Errors
...and speed. My students once remarked that they could understand me when I talked to them, but not when I talked to another teacher. I realised that I slow down a lot for them to understand. Now I...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2007, 07:43 pm
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Views: 3,859 Re: Diversity in English
That's the paradox that I'm interested in. An international English, but more variation at the local level. You'd wonder if over time, the International English would win out.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 2nd, 2007, 07:32 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 29th, 2007, 07:43 pm
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Views: 3,345 Re: Grammer question???
Hi Melissa,
You can try my site: www.roadtogrammar.com, but there are no printables.
A tip, also, 'grammar' is spelled with two 'a's
Best wishes
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 29th, 2007, 07:34 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 26th, 2007, 07:52 pm
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Views: 3,859  Diversity in English
50 years from now, will there be more diversity, or less diversity, in English? ...and in language in general?
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 26th, 2007, 07:50 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 19th, 2007, 08:53 pm
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Views: 16,127 Adverb or not?
Hi all,
A visitor to my website has been arguing with me that 'fast' should not be used as an adverb, and that to do so is colloquial and incorrect.
As far as I can tell, this is not true.
Do you...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 19th, 2007, 08:01 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,232 Re: Native Speaker Errors
In some parts of England, people say: 'It were great!'
But I'd put that down to local dialect rather than 'error'. (Meaning that they know and use the right form when with a different group of...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 17th, 2007, 02:17 am
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Views: 4,232 Native Speaker Errors
What are the most common errors made by native speakers?
I can think of:
"I shouldn't of done that!"
"You better not do that!"
(Using 'of' instead of 'have' and dropping the 'had' in 'had better')
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 15th, 2007, 10:36 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 12th, 2007, 08:17 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 12th, 2007, 08:14 pm
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Views: 37,123 Re: How to make a Student Progress Speaking Test
I suggest you look up the IELTS standards or the ALTE standards (www.alte.org) and use these to help you.
Ouch!!! They need to practice speaking as much as possible for many reasons. Even a low...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 10th, 2007, 12:28 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 5th, 2007, 07:46 pm
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Views: 4,231 Re: A humiliating day - help required
Hello Marie,
Ouch! Your story brings back memories for me, too.
What I've learned about Chinese students, though is that 'boring' is not as harsh to them as it is in English. When we say 'Your book...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 3rd, 2007, 12:37 am
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Views: 4,894 Re: Top Ten Errors
I can recognise almost all these errors in my own students. (Err... before I teach them, of course)
Notice that the most basic errors (articles, plurals) are the ones hardest to get rid of.
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