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MuscatGary · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:02 am Post subject:

Ignoring any benefits that a CELTA course might provide in terms of actually helping a newbie to teach, the main reason for recommending a CELTA is that it is a well known brand in the field, employers recognise it.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:15 am Post subject:

All very true. Show me a learner who has mastered present simple third person singular 's', and I'll show you an advanced user of English.

Understanding this, and not misapplying pedogogy from other feilds, is just one of the benefits of a pre-service course. Although, if one depends totally on a local teacher to translate and/or do the bulk of the real teaching, then none of the above would matter much. Or, indeed, make sense. One might even labour under the sad misapprehension that one is speaking to other posters as an equal in the field. Simply not true if another teacher has to do your teaching for you...

happyinshangqiu · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:09 am Post subject:

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:22 am Post subject:

And another barrage of personal insults from a happy poster? How unexpected.

buravirgil · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:52 am Post subject:

Barrage? Isn't that like a fusillade? Isn't a plurality implied? Granted two swipes are a plurality, but...

Perhaps the barb monkey, its crudity, toxicity, and lack of imagination, has led to an overstatement as any poster's taunt of so obvious a typo as "feilds" is laughable-- a hoist by one's own petard, as it were. Besides, words are less like artillery than swords: I like to say blame is a double-edged blade (err, sword).

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:30 am Post subject:

Not an overstatement when one looks at the sock campaign and sees it comprises many threads. More crudity will follow. Then the inevitable will transpire. As is the way...

happyinshangqiu · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:46 am Post subject:

happyinshangqiu · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:48 am Post subject:

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:50 am Post subject:

Enjoy it while it lasts. This current sock, that is.

happyinshangqiu · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:41 pm Post subject:

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

We were having a useful and interesting professional conversation here. Must yet another good thread be sunk by a poster with nothing to offer but silly insults? They're not even educated, well-written, or intelligent insults.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:27 pm Post subject:

This thread was about training options. The last few pages were about countering erroneous views about Celta posted by those who don't know the first thing about it. Now, we have the disgruntled and previously banned bad penny turning up to derail the thread.

Pity you are so sad. It belies your handle. Cheer up, though. Your misery won't last.