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Immersion works in an ESL environment, but you are not teaching in an ESL environment. EFL is drastically different from ESL. Immersion is RIDICULOUSLY hard on children. Having worked with ESL children in the U.S., a good part of our job was to provide support for the ESL students, as they are in an...

revel wrote:"Waste of Time"?

I like it. We'll call it 'Wot?'

Does English have postpositions?

I didn't think so, but could be wrong. What kind of examples do you have of prepositional phrases that go:

<Noun phrase> <preposition>

?

Nothing sounds out of the ordinary to me in your example. Sure it might be a tad redundant, but it sounds just as correct to me, as say... They had the same number of children They both had X children When said out loud, stressing either 'both' or 'same' could be used to place emphasis on a certain ...

I love teaching prefixes and suffixes. It's such a great way to expand vocabulary fast. With my level students I stick to simple things like -er though I don't see why teaching these things would ever be considered a bad thing. Play a game of boggle, but set a list of prefixes and suffixes, and let ...

Government actually invented only MONEY, and only THAT do they have any real right to tax. Questions: •How would you explain that SAI in the sentence above is not a mistake? It's a function of using the word 'only' and the author's wish to put emphasis on the object of the sentence. It's more of a ...

Where or what do you base on to say so?

José

I don't have a study or some numbers to back it up, but it certainly seems that way to me:

"I'm going to Texas on Friday"
"I'm playing baseball tomorrow"
"I'm giving a speech at the assembly"
"I'm teaching the ESOL class next semester"

I've never heard that construction before in my life, and had no idea what this thread would be about from the title (AE). But once given a sentence, it's not that difficult to comprehend. Seems like it was used more for poetic reasons than a reflection of the author's everyday speech. I wouldn't as...

Hello/Goodbye by the beetles. There's a bit of a dance that goes along with it. Whenever you say the word hello, change from standing to crouching, or vice versa. You say yes (point away from you (you) point to your mouth (say) nod your head (yes)) I say no (same as above, only point to yourself for...

Basically agree with Lorikeet here. From a strictly prescriptive standpoint, "taller than I (am)" is 'correct', but general usage has made the shift towards "me" as the 'correct' choice, especially in conversation. just ask yourself if it is possible to say 'he is taller than she' NO, it's her which...

I'm from the States. But I hear the non-ordinal construction constantly in Japan too, so that probably also influences my reaction. However, I'd catch it immediately if used as such: The conference is from the five to the six. Is this also used in India? A google or two didn't turn up anything.

I don't think I'd bat an eye in a conversation, and probably wouldn't catch it immediately when reading a paper either, but I would probably think of

"February sixth to seventh"

as more 'correct'

So I'm curious about the word 'staff'....... I am a staff member at SMU. I am an SMU staff. I am a member of the staff at SMU. We lost three key staff members yesterday. We lost three key staff yesterday. We lost three key members of our staff yesterday. So what sounds right and what sounds wrong ab...

How about this, Jimbobob? For example, is the latter sentence here an expansion of the first, or is it that the first is a reduction of the latter? Quote: The man swimming in the lake is my father. The man who is swimming in the lake is my father. Is there a real way to determine this? In this case...

How can we tell that something is an expansion of something and that something is not a reduction of the larger form (i.e. of the "expanded" form)? For example, is the latter sentence here an expansion of the first, or is it that the first is a reduction of the latter? The man swimming in the lake ...