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| Which skill do you try to teach THE MOST? |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Looks like someone's taken a TEFL course!... In simple layman terms, I focus mostly on speaking/listening skills and the communicative value of stressing important words and using intonation to convey meaning. "Fossilized errors" by Koreans - and most Asians - in confusing the "r" and "l" and "b" and "v" and, to a lesser extent, "s" and "z" sounds and their tendency to inappropriately add a vowel sound ("uh") to words ending in consonants obviously require some special attention... |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| last week a teacher walked out of a classroom and in the hallway commented, "they didnt retain anything i taught them today." |
My comment would be, and?? Language acquisition is about repeated use and exposure. While it is nice when it happens, retention on the first try isn't necessarily something a teacher should be expecting. I can't count the nuber of things I've "learned" in Korean and Spanish that are now gone: The ol' smack on the forhead followed by, "I knew that!!"
But one suspects there are graver issues at work for that teacher.  |
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elg
Joined: 23 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| fossilization is an important issue. i always wonder how much we contribute to it by not meeting the needs in the early stages and also by not holding the students responsible. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| Sure. And when you've got those same errors around you nearly constantly on TV commercials, in movies, etc., it certainly doesn't help. Add in the K E teachers who teach those errors... Aigooo! |
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