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I'm looking at courses for people with teaching experience - not sure if that's your situation too. All seem to stress the practical application of theory, not just studying theory for the sake of it. Typically, the assessment (usually essay) for a module involves evaluating aspects of your teachin...

There is a wealth of information on the posts on Dave's under writing. These are frank and probably genuine because the posters are anonymous and have nothing to lose by saying their students have problems. The students themselves comment on the student forums which would be another way to look at ...

Hi, , I am just writing my final thesis on this topic for my BA. I wonder if you have read any articls or relative books related to the "English writing difficulties for the English learners "? I can't find much information on Western researchers and most of my materials in hand are the studies done...

The major problem is not being able to "turn off" their mother tongue, because if they are taught with the translation "crutches", or having to deal with tons of rules and boring explanations about tenses or the use or articles, etc., they will never produce English in a natural way, and much less ...

Actually I believe the most obvious problem is failing to carefully apply what they do actually know - it's very hard to do that in a foreign tongue because there are just so many things to think about as you write. So, as you yourself have, they may fail to capitalize the first word and make some ...

Thanks for the summary. I'm interested more in courses which concentrate on how theory is applied to teaching - classroom, testing, CALL, curriculum design - with some elements of AL & SLA than in courses in linguistics itself. I'll post something in the forum that you suggested and see... (No doub...

I doubt if there are national let alone international league tables for postgrad ELT qualifications (or if there are, they won't be that illuminating). All you can really do is browse national course guides/directories, then look at individual institutions and decide if their range of compulsory an...

Hey, everyone, I am a Chinese university student and I am graduating from our university next July. I have learned English Education for my Bachelor's Degree. I'm thinking about studying in UK for my Master Degree and the subject TESOL and TEFL seem to be a good choice for me. However, I am not sure...

Hey, everyone, I am a Chinese university student and I am graduating from our university next July. I have learned English Education for my Bachelor's Degree. I'm thinking about studying in UK for my Master Degree and the subject TESOL and TEFL seem to be a good choice for me. However, I am not sure...

Yes, I think watching films can help. It helps to take the language away from the artificial classroom norm, which helps students because they get a to see/hear the language in a more natural setting. This can really help with listening skills as the visual support is what's missing from the usual ...

If a grammar obsessed teacher gave students a lot of chances to compose sentences, I think that the students in that class might turn out to be very good writers. If teachers just talk on at the board, then maybe not. Basically, you won't be good at what you don't practice, so in those classes wher...

Do your students have difficulties in their English writing? What kind of problem do they have, such as the vocabulary, the sructure and the ideas? What have you done to help them? I don't think I said this is due to "bad teachers/methods" in my reply. I replied to Melinda Wu about my teaching expe...

The major problem is not being able to "turn off" their mother tongue, because if they are taught with the translation "crutches", or having to deal with tons of rules and boring explanations about tenses or the use or articles, etc., they will never produce English in a natural way, and much less ...

hello, everyone, I'm a new comer here and I wanna your help. I am a Chinese student majoring in English Education and I am starting a research about the wring problems of the college students. Do your students have difficulties in their English writing? What kind of problem do they have, such as the...