Well, here's the sort of thing I had in mind:
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- Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:29 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Ways of interacting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5473
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:34 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Ways of interacting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5473
I'd never heard the terms referential and display question. They are horrible terms. The British council website defines them as follows: "Display questions are questions you ask to see if the person you are speaking to knows the answer. In an ELT classroom, this normally means questions teachers as...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:55 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Ways of interacting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5473
Thank you Fluffy. What this is about is that I have a lesson plan form in my current job that has a heading "interaction". It seems to me that this is something that needs analysis. I'm in the process of writing little arrows with interaction that I can paste into a lesson plan but I have to get a n...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:36 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Ways of interacting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5473
Ways of interacting
I haven't been in this forum for a very long while. If you'll forgive me. I have been wondering recently about the different ways in which a teacher might interact with a student and vice versa and how students may interact with each other. A teacher may do any of the following to one or more studen...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:39 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Headway for ESOL
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1769
That would depend on whether it was level E1a, b, c or d literacy or non-literacy. Ie whether the students have learnt to read and write in their own languages. In EFL, this is almost a given, In ESOL, it most certainly isn't. In fact, in E1a literacy classes be prepared to have to show your student...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:05 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Sine wave speech
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1936
- Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:03 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Sine wave speech
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1936
Sine wave speech
I recently came across an article on "sine wave speech" in the New Scientist. It is a sort of mathematical extraction of real speech which becomes intelligible only after listening to the unaltered speech recording although apparently you can be trained to understand them. I have been wanting to fin...
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:26 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: infinitive as subject
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7311
No, no, no. "To+infinitive" is perfectly OK in current English but it has to be either: 1) something profound or of great importance - To impeach or not to impeach. (Or indeed, "To practise regularly is important.") Perhaps the latter is a trifle old fashioned. 2) the answer to a "Why did...?" quest...
- Sun May 06, 2007 11:33 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Bought Up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6994
- Sat May 05, 2007 7:33 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Bought Up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6994
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: male/female grammar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3727
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: In which register/s?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1730
- Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:53 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Roots of English
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4271
There are a few words that have come in from Celtic languages. Krysstal.com lists loads but is not to be trusted as it lists dialect words that are absolutely not derrived from the Celtic languages. Wikipedia lists: Adder Bard Booth Bow (archery) Brock Coney Coracle Corgi Druid Flannel Flummery Peng...
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:44 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: male/female grammar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3727
I would like to know: what is linking the sentences together whether adverbials are acting as linkers or whether other linking words are used where the adverbial is final also are adverbials both initial and final in the same sentence also whether the corpus is native speaker or general. Without the...
- Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:19 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Active form: passive meaning
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7414
Re: Active form: passive meaning
There are dishes to do. No, but I wouldn't regard it as wrong. There are dishes to be done. Yes. These apples are ready to eat. No, but I wouldn't regard it as wrong. These apples are ready for eating. Yes. These apples are ready to be eaten. Borderline. The movie is filming in NY. No way, yuck! The...