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I have tried to use a corpus approach with first year university students in Hong Kong, but my students were not English majors, and did not really put what I showed them to use. I pulled some ideas from a book called Exploring Academic English: a workbook fro essay writing, by Jennifer Thurstun and...

EFL Teacher Questionnaire Please tell me about yourself: 1. Are you a man or a woman? Woman 2 Where are you from originally? Canada 3. Where are you teaching English? Hong Kong 4. How long have you been teaching English? Six Years Please tell me about your students: 5. What types of students are you...

ESL students sometimes appreciate folktales and traditional stories from their own country in translation. It helps them to cross the threshold of L2 by starting with material that they are more comfortable and familiar with.

I am a translator (Spanish to English) and I have also taught ESL. I find that most of my ESL students are not careful and thoughtful enough to do translations, and that research is the key to what translation students lack. Students should research terminology, vocabulary, idioms and sentence struc...