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mitsui
Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1562 Location: Kawasaki
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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The school is very low-level. You have no idea. |
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santi84
Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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mitsui wrote: |
The school is very low-level. You have no idea. |
I've taught students who couldn't say "I am..." or had cognitive delays/learning disabilities in addition to being ESL. You could, at the most basic level, show the same picture of a beach vacation/holiday (same picture), and point to a map. That is of course, assuming your students are so low level that you feel they cannot understand (and also assuming that assumption is based on proper assessments).
I'm also now going to assume that you aren't interested in correcting some fundamental misconceptions about Englishes and teaching methods, so I'll move on. |
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dragonpiwo
Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:13 am Post subject: erm |
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I use materials from English and American websites and teach 'differences' as and when I see fit.
However. let's be clear about 1 thing: English is from England like democracy is from Greece. |
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mitsui
Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1562 Location: Kawasaki
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:13 am Post subject: |
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Not sure what that means.
I grew tired of the condescending posts. |
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buravirgil
Joined: 23 Jan 2014 Posts: 967 Location: Jiangxi Province, China
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In the heat of the moment
Joined: 22 May 2015 Posts: 393 Location: Italy
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: erm |
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dragonpiwo wrote: |
I use materials from English and American websites and teach 'differences' as and when I see fit.
However. let's be clear about 1 thing: English is from England like democracy is from Greece. |
Yeah, African and Asian and South American and European countries all have democracy and speak English. That's why we are spreadin' Democracy! like there's no tomorrow! Amirite or amirite, eh? |
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3701 W.119th
Joined: 26 Feb 2014 Posts: 386 Location: Central China
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 4:21 am Post subject: |
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I'll often joke with my American colleagues over the differences between UK/US English. 'The clue is in the name. English'. It's just light-hearted banter though. It's the same language! Really insignificant differences.
I'm shocked that this could actually carry over into the classroom. Seems a non-issue.
It's not like 'Chinese'. Now there's a misnomer if ever I heard one. |
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buravirgil
Joined: 23 Jan 2014 Posts: 967 Location: Jiangxi Province, China
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:14 am Post subject: |
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3701 W.119th wrote: |
Seems a non-issue.
It's not like 'Chinese'. Now there's a misnomer if ever I heard one. |
In lieu of Mandarin or Cantonese? Maybe that's obvious.
I've held back commenting because I perceived two issues: The curricular assertion of an admininstrator and the autonomy of a teacher complicated by it. And I've agreed the admonishments/condescending remarks are correct in content if not style. Do whatever you want in the classroom and accept such petty and arbitrary prescription as the cost of doing business.
But a related issue plagued my last year of designing curricular exams in the middle east: Testing for get/got in zero and near-zero beginners in a PYP program. My contention was its use in British English as an ancillary to the verb have was eschewed by American usage in formal/academic writing and used in casual speech and quite a few idiomatic expressions, but not as fundamentally as Brits do. I was overruled. |
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