Search found 16 matches
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:13 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Training in mulitnational departments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1938
Tigertiger - it was so obvious really - issues we chatted loosely about in the staffroom I put into a more formalised setting and added some of yours on antagonsim. So much came out, not all of it complimentary unsurprising really, but at least it is a platform on which to build. I think we underest...
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:20 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Dead wood?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1276
Dead wood?
What to do with old colleagues from different cultures who have been around for an age and are reluctant or hostile to change? For example a reluctance to use IT or less teacher centered methods. Yes, the title is loaded but there is a gap in the staffroom here causing some ructions not least in exp...
- Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:14 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: English role model
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1664
Ho ho ho. How easy to impicitly mock a 'thick' sports star. Hmm - I know wealth, fame success and a fair amount of ability aren't everything (but they help?) but why the need to point out intellectual failings of someone who has never claimed anything in the brain department? Seems rather petty and ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:23 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Training in mulitnational departments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1938
Yes, useful tips - some of which are gently touched on in the staffroom. There is a need for some crossover. We are coming from two completely different expectations of teaching and teachers - I don't think it is possible to marry the two. As for Cousin Yank in post 2 - modest as you are, there are ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:26 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Training in mulitnational departments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1938
Training in mulitnational departments
Am finding training days a bit of a problem. Western teachers dominate and 'know' everything. Local teachers conforming to Asian 'passive' stereotypes 'let' them. These are deeply unsatisfying - any suggestions to getting around this to help make them useful and learning and reflective. By the way e...
- Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:31 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Connectionism anyone?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2150
Many thanks for the useful leads. It seems, from the little, I have garnered an incredibly theoretical area but for that reason one worth following. Language acquisition I find an amazingly interesting area not least because so much of it is bound up in scienctific research rather than subjective op...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:14 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Connectionism anyone?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2150
Connectionism anyone?
Anybody aware of connectionist theory in relation to SLA?
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:10 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call when a football player passes an opponent?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3039
- Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:01 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Help Please: 'ask forgiveness', or ask for forgiveness'
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2336
forgiveness
I go with your final point about it being a matter of pride to explain however, when do the words ask and forgiveness ever get used by business folk?
- Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:13 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Can a teacher be a students first crush
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2226
students crush on teacher
I would say that yes, it is normal to be annoyed when students don't listen but you have to ask yourself why they are not listening. For example is it anything you may or may not have done? Is it the end of the day? When you can answer the question as to why they are not listening then you can do so...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:13 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Help Please: 'ask forgiveness', or ask for forgiveness'
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2336
ask forgiveness
I would say 'ask for' as in ask for + noun although the ask forgiveness form could be idiomatic. However, I wonder firstly out of simple interest, if there is a difference in usage between the US and British or Aussie usages and secondly does it really matter as both of them are grammatical and not ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:41 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Thick Indian Accents
- Replies: 7
- Views: 23237
Indian accents
Another British Indian programme if you can get it, is the BBCs Goodness Gracious Me - comedy, stereotypes and accents - a great combination.
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:59 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Brain Gym
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1073
Brain Gym
Does anyone have any good brain gym ideas for the ESL classroom? A lot of the ones I have sourced on the net seemed to be aimed at either focussing the very young or calming teenagers.
- Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:02 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Communicative Approach
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5380
Communicative Approach
They didn't even to seem to think it was necessarily written in stone that it was the bestest thing!
What is their take? That a range of methods suitable to one's context is? Or that it's fluid? Or work out what's best for you and your groups? Or dare I say do what works.
What is their take? That a range of methods suitable to one's context is? Or that it's fluid? Or work out what's best for you and your groups? Or dare I say do what works.
- Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:17 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Communicative Approach
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5380
Communicative Approach
Many thanks for the replies and the links - which I haven't had too much time to look at yet. Certainly, there does seem to be a link with my experiences of Japanese students (and Indonesian ones too) with those of lolwhites. A lot of deafening silence as one of you said. It would also seem, to me a...