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eddy-cool
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| Buck Lin wrote: |
| . If they are saying the words they are reading to slowly. Students to get the most of his methods need to hear their own voices and be able to compare what they have said with the modeled voice. |
That's an excellent point - nobody actually knows how they sound when speaking, not even when speaking in their first language. In China students seem to be PROTECTED from hearing CHINESE speaking English, and that is one of the biggest problem causes. Students need to hear the difference between their own English and standard English. They need to become able to identify their own stumbling blocks - the TH, the X, the R sounds, the rhythm, stress and intonation.
But what can you expect from an ossified institution that hands down its verdicts to all normal school graduates as absolute truths? Every primary school pupil is under order to daily read aloud before class actually begins; this reading aloud takes place in a cramped classroom with 50 other voices adding to the cacophonous din.
These reading-aloud practice hours should be abolished for good. |
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Anda
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Jiangsu Province
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: Um |
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I think that teaching systems like Crazy English are okay for a short time for beginners but then a switch is needed to lets call it a more structured system.
Let�s face it; how do you keep children here in China doing anything in class without doing a monkey act?
Trying to teach like a Chinese teacher out of a book is not on for our lot unless one wants a classroom of unresponsive kids.
So using something like Crazy English for 10 or thirteen minutes of a lesson period isn't that unpractical for our lot. |
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