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 Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: TEFL is cheap |
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Fellow teflers:
Have you noticed that the most popular adjective on the forum is:
cheap
cheap room, cheap wine, cheap hotel, cheap course etc.
Makes you glad to be a tefler. |
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:09 am Post subject: |
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'Crap' is in strong competition with 'cheap' for popularity...  |
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justme
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| 31 must also be popular? |
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: |
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It is very interesting. If your students are clever and interested more in learning English than passing tests, it can be a good teaching tool.
There used to be a good, free, online corpus with some teaching activities out of University of Hawaii (I think), but it appears they've taken away the free part.... |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Can you give us a link entrailicus or do we have to buy it? |
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I put a concordancer but you seem to have a frequency searcher of some kind... |
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, Entrailicus-- thanks! That was really cool. I ran one of my short stories through the frequency analyzer and it came out like really bad poetry! |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheers Entrailicus. Although not totally related It can be useful. If you suspect your students of plagarism type the sentence you suspect into www.dogpile.com. If they have done, dogpile will probably find it. Then you can fail them |
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