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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Who says the quality of Engish teaching is in decline?

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

Yeah TEFL has always been bad.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

How the heck is someone supposed to vote YES or NO? Your poll only allows DON'T KNOW and DON'T CARE.

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject:

I feel like we're setting ourselves up for somebody to have a laugh at our expense....

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

Correct me if I'm wrong but it would seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Don't know = ignorance
Don't care = apathy

Has anyone actually voted?

SandyMcIvor · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:11 am Post subject:

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

What's the statue?(looks like me on a Sunday morning)

JonnytheMann · Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 337 Location: USA

It's a troll (from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).

Darkbloom · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 13

Predictably, chaos ensued when the really poor attempt at humor went over the average poster's head.

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

Dunno, maybe it was a humor/humour misunderstanding. Twisted Evil

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

carnac · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject:

Is the dog next door electromagnetically forcing me to post leading, inane questions?
( ) don't know
( ) don't care
( ) need more information
( ) my name is Son of Sam
( ) I need more aluminum foil
( ) Who was that really handsome guy with the big loincloth?
( ) Yeah, gimme two cheeseburgers, fries and a chocolate shake.

Translated into Yiddish: Oy gevalt!

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

I am convinced that the quality of English teaching has been suffering for a long while.
Looking at it from today's standpoint it is difficult since we do not know, or cannot remember, how the situation presented itself 10 or 20 years ago.

But compare it to the results in teaching other languages as foreign or second tongues, and you can hardly avoid noticing a discrepancy.

For instance here in China, I occasionally deal with students who study French, Italian or German - routinely as their 2nd foreign tongue.
Those who do not deserve a pass grade won't make it in the job market since bad French or bad German inevitably leads to unwelcome consequences for the pretender/impostor. The majority speak those foreign tongues very well, and as a sideline I may note their English, or first foreign language, is above average too.

You know what? They do not have the benefit of a "coin francais" or a "Deutsche Sprachecke" (French and German equivalents of Engllish
corner).

JonnytheMann · Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 337 Location: USA

Okay, I guess it's not clear for everyone so I will say it: this thread was a joke. It was an attempt at humor.