Malsol
Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: Lanzhou
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| eslstudies wrote: |
| Steppenwolf wrote: |
While the above seems to be the opinion of someone well-intentioned, we mustn't forget that our role is to train - not teach! - students at using English aurally and orally. |
Speak for yourself. I teach people how to do things. You train them to do things. Semantics maybe, but I prefer my job to yours. |
I am with ESL on this one.
You can train a parrot but you can't teach a parrot.
Unfortunately, Chinese students are more like parrots. |
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