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I'm British (English to be even more precise) and was lucky enough to have a classical top-drawer education (though it has not done me any good - I am 46, studying for my 18th qualification, which also happens to be my third post-graduate qualification - all that and yet still without work, despite ...

I wasn't aware that Anglo-Saxon was a language; the language is normally called Old English. It was a Germanic language. Quote: "Like English, Scots is a direct descendant of Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon." (from Wikipedia) Also "After Scots, the next closest relative is Frisian—spoken in ...

The Danish students in particular caught on quickly because English is so similar and as they said, based on Danish. I find that rather arrogant of them, to say the least. The last known record of a Danish invasion was in 851 AD. At that time, the English language was predominantly Anglo-Saxon and ...

There is some powerful learned stuff on that website. Tomorrow I will start one of my private adult classes on colouring in verbs (processes). Red for present,blue for future tense and brown for past tense. We will worry about finite operators and lexical verbs later. Geordie Geordie That sounds li...

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Thanks Sally

Very useful information, Sally. Thank you. The TOEFL course seems a godd starting place with regards to the research. I thought maybe I could even compare it against the BEC for relevance as a tool for assessing student ability prior to application for a place at a university Business School but the...

Interesting viewpoint, Sally. Good to see somebody has confidence in SFL and has found a practical wy to use it...

Thanks for your suggestion James. I'll see if it's a goer.

Thank you Sally. Sadly I do not have any data from previously taught courses. All the bits I have done to date have been 1-to-1 and tailored to student needs as we went along. I have not heard of Google Scholar before. I'll find out about it. As to your parting question, "What problems do you see in...

Hi All I am currently reading for a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (Applied Linguistics) by reading a distance-learning course on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide (TESOLW) with the Open University in England. This is a very tight and demanding...

Hi All I am currently reading for a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (Applied Linguistics) by reading a distance-learning course on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide (TESOLW) with the Open University in England. This is a very tight and demanding...

Hi All I am currently reading for a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (Applied Linguistics) by reading a distance-learning course on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide (TESOLW) with the Open University in England. This is a very tight and demanding...

Hi All I am currently reading for a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (Applied Linguistics) by reading a distance-learning course on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide (TESOLW) with the Open University in England. This is a very tight and demanding...

Hi All I am currently reading for a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (Applied Linguistics) by reading a distance-learning course on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide (TESOLW) with the Open University in England. This is a very tight and demanding...